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The ©K
is led plan your play.
A thoughtless declarer will go up with the Heart Ace
and get a rude awakening when East ruffs and puts a club through. Declarer will
lose 2 Hearts, 1 Club and finally the Diamond queen.
Declarer should know from the bidding that West
almost certainly started with
8 Hearts and that the first trick is therefore likely to be ruffed. However
declarer can still be safe as long as he loses only 2 Hearts and 1 Diamond and
the possible club loser will go on
the long diamond.
Declarer should duck the first two Hearts, thereby
keeping East off lead to stop the dreaded Club switch. When the third heart is
played declarer overruffs East, draws trumps, and takes a losing Diamond
finesse. East gets his Queen but now the club loser is thrown on dummy’s last
winning Diamond.
Declarer
has made 6 Hearts, 3Diamonds and 1
club restricting his losers to just 2 Hearts and a Diamond.