Dlr E
Vul N-S
| ♠ 4 | ||
| ♥ Q4 | ||
| ♦ KQ84 | ||
| ♣ K107432 | ||
| ♠ A763 | ♠ KQ2 | |
| ♥ K109865 | ♥ A | |
| ♦ 753 | ♦ A1096 | |
| ♣ | ♣ Q9865 | |
| ♠ J10985 | ||
| ♥ J732 | ||
| ♦ J2 | ||
| ♣ AJ |
Andy | Franco | ||
|---|---|---|---|
West | North | East | South |
| 1NT | Pass | ||
| 2♣ | Dbl | Pass | Pass |
| 4♥ | All Pass |
[Andy] I led my spade. Declarer (a world class player) saw that his best chance would be to elope with his trumps, so he won in dummy and ruffed a club. He knew that spades were either 5-1 or 3-3, and he decided that his best chance was the latter, so he played the ♠A. I ruffed and from there he could not do better than down 1.
It was the right basic idea, but to succeed at double dummy declarer must play a heart to the A after the first club ruff, ruff another club, and play the ♥K. Having thus removed all my trumps, he could go back to cashing his spades and eloping with all his trumps.
No one in the field bid and made game, but there were 140s and 170s and +50 was worth 14.5/17 for us.
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