A
deal from a Manchester online league match.
Dealer N Love All.
After
a simple auction you play in four spades on the
seven of clubs lead.
Trumps
will break kindly, form a plan and then scroll down.
You have three top losers and need to set up hearts to create enough tricks. At
the table declarer drew three rounds of trumps and
played a heart to the jack and king.
West
returned a club taking an entry out to the
hearts.
Declarer
now played another heart and East erred by taking
the king and tried to cash the minor suit
winners. When the club was ruffed declarer
still had a trump entry to dummy to cash the now
good hearts. If East had ducked the second
heart there would not have been enough entries to
dummy to set up and enjoy the heart suit.
It
is better to start on hearts immediately.
You will need some reasonable breaks, but you will
now have the entries to set up and cash
the hearts.
The
full deal was
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