North Dealer	ª	Q 9 8 2
	Neither Vulnerable	©	K J
		¨	K Q J 7 3
		§	4 2
			N
ª	J 10 3			ª	A 6
©	Q 5 4 2		W                          E	©	A 10 7 6
¨	5 4 2			¨	A 8
§	K 7 3			§	Q J 8 7 5
			S
		ª	K 7 5 4
		©	9 8 3
		¨	10 9 6
		§	A 10 6

                           

W	N	E	S
		1§	NO
1©	DBL	3©	3ª
NO	NO	NO

 

 

In order to make this somewhat precarious contract you will have to arrange not to have more than one loser in each suit., correctly playing the trump suit to avoid 2 losers.

 

Trick one suggests that West has not led away from the ©A and to succeed at your first obstacle you must play dummy’s Jack which brings the Ace. When a club comes back you take the Ace. Who is more likely to have the trump Ace ? We think East as East made an opening bid. For us to stand any chance we hope it is a doubleton Ace. We enter dummy with the Heart King to take the Spade finesse. Inserting the King when East plays low. We now play a low trump from each hand delighted to see East’s trump Ace falling on air. A club is cashed before another heart is played. We draw the last trump and knock out the Diamond ace. We have brought home our contract losing one trick in each suit and amassing 3 trumps tricks, 1 Heart, 4 established Diamonds and 1 Club.