Dealer North             ♠          Q 6 5

Both Vul                    ♥          Q 2

                                    ♦          Q

                                    ♣         A Q 10 9 7 5 4

            ♠          A J 8 7 2                                 ♠          K 4

            ♥          J 10 7                                     ♥          K 8 6 4

            ♦          J 5 3                                         ♦         K 10 4 2

            ♣         J 6                                           ♣         8 3 2

                                    ♠          10 9 3

                                    ♥          A 9 5 3

                                    ♦          A 9 8 7 6

                                    ♣         K

After a somewhat aggressive auction you end up in 3NT - can see  any way that you could possibly make this contract. Will the bridge gods be with you after the opponents play three rounds of Spade leaving you on play in dummy?

In order to make this contract you are going to have to pray that the Clubs are going to be kind to you and that one of the generous opponents started with either a singleton Club Jack or a doubleton Club Jack as you have no entry to dummy, your source of tricks. .

The nasty opponents took your entry out your only entry at  trick three.

So after winning trick 3 play the Club Ace followed by the Queen and pat yourself on the back for finding a solution to access the dummy. With the Club Jack coming down in 2 rounds you can now enjoy all those lovely Clubs.

You will make 1 Spade,  2 Red Suit Aces  and all 7 clubs for a very nice +630 score.

You can also watch the following movie to see how the hand pans out. To view this programme you will need  to download htttp://www.haroldschogger.com/bridgevu.setup

  alternatively watch the film www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm

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