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    Dealer South Both Vul

                                    ♠          A J 7

                                    ♥          A K 5

                                    ♦          6 4

                                    ♣         A J 9 8 7

            ♠          K 6                                          ♠          10 9 8

            ♥          Q 9 8                                       ♥          J 6 4 2

            ♦          A Q 10 7 3                             ♦          K 9 2

            ♣         Q 10 3                                    ♣         K 6 5

                                    ♠          Q 5 4 3 2

                                    ♥          10 7 3

                                    ♦          J 8 5

                                    ♣         4 2

After quite a bit of bidding misunderstanding and a partner who does not like to bid less than Game, could I possibly make 4ª?

I would need a miracle layout of the opponents’ cards to get home.

The lead suggested a three or four card suit headed by an honour, so at trick 1 I played the 9 from dummy which yielded the King from East who immediately switched to Diamonds and the opponents took two diamond tricks followed by a Heart switch. I won the lead in dummy and with no entry to hand played a top club followed by a club ruff delighted to see the clubs breaking 3-3. I was not out of the woods yet. I now needed not only the King of trump to be with West but it had to be doubleton. I now played a low spade and finessed the Jack which won. I now cashed top Spade bringing down the King. I returned to the now promoted Spade Queen to draw the last trump. Now the hand was all over as I entered dummy with the Heart King and cashed two established Clubs.

I had made 5 trumps, 2 Hearts, 1 Club and 2 established clubs losing just two diamonds and 1 club.

(NB Had the opponents played a third round of Diamonds I would of course had to trump but now I would have lots of entry problems  getting back to my hand to draw the last trump, but I got lucky when they didn’t.)

 

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