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Hand of the week, week commencing, Sunday 5th June 2022
Playing Match Point pairs how would you play your 3NT contract after the ♣7 lead?
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Dealer: West Love All
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| W | N | E | S |
| Pass | 1♥ | Pass | 1♠ |
| Pass | 2♣ | Pass | 2♦ |
| Pass | 3♦ | Pass | 3NT |
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What do you make of that lead? It seems West has led top of Nothing and East "must have" the club queen. So at trick 1, you let the lead come around to your 10 with East following suit with the ♣8 at trick 1.
You have escaped a Spade lead.
Needing as many overtricks as possible you take stock - without doing any work at all, you have 7 more winners- 2 Clubs, 3 Diamonds, 2 Major Suit Aces.
If the Diamonds break no worse than 3:2 or the Jack falls singleton you now have 9 tricks. You need to keep the two hands fluid.
So at trick, as you are now in the correct hand to take take the Heart finesse. Let's do that and it is successful. Having initially assessed East to hold missing Club queen now play the ♣9 ready to let it run. It wins and now you can cash out for 11 tricks making two overtricks for a good Match Point score and never putting your contract at risk
You made 4 clubs, 4 Diamonds, 2 Hearts and 1 Spade.
It seems that West didn't want to give anything away and that's why he led a club. Seems he chose the wrong minor suit lead J
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