This
deal is from the Swiss Pairs at the EBU Spring
Congress.
John
Holland reached three notrump after the above
auction and West led the four of clubs.
This
went to the eight, queen and ace. Next John
played the ten of spades covered by the queen and
king. He then cashed another top spade to find
that the suit was running for six tricks. At
this point he could have settled for eleven
tricks. But overtricks are valuable at pairs,
so he played a heart towards the king. When
that held he claimed twelve tricks for a 96% board,
making eleven would only have scored 40%. If
the heart king had lost to the ace and East had the
queen and ten of hearts and West had continued
hearts he may have got a poor score but the risk was
small and the prospect for a large gain was good.
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