Dealer
E Love All.
(1)
4+ spades
(2)
3 card spade support
This
deal is from the Teams Qualifier at the Manchester
Congress.
You
reach four hearts on the above auction with East
West playing a strong notrump system.
West
leads the spade ten, you play low from the dummy,
East wins the ace. East now plays the ace of
clubs, two, five, queen and follows with a spade to
dummy's queen.
How
do you play the trumps?
Solution
You
need the king of diamonds to be with West to make
the contract. In that case East must have the
heart ace for an opening bid. Can East have
the heart queen as well? If she did then West
would only hold three or four points for his bid of
one spade. So play a heart to the king.
This holds and now a second round of hearts draws
the outstanding trumps.
The
full deal was
Thanks
to Jovanka Smederevac for analysing this deal
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