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A
deal from the Cumbria/Norfolk Swiss Pairs.
Dealer S N-S vulnerable.
Online
bridge means there are some strange competitions.
Norfolk
and Cumbria merged their green point Swiss weekend
competitions in March and attracted a large entry
from all over the country.
This
deal found many declarers (including me) having a
blind spot.
North
South flirted with bidding a slam, but ended in four
spades.
West
led the club king. How do you play?
Solution
To retain control play a small trump towards dummy at trick two. If spades split 3-2 then twelve tricks are easy. When
they split 4-1, as they did at the table, if
East takes the spade king, South can then draw
trumps, fortunately the ten was singleton.
If
East tries ducking the jack of spades,
South can take the spade finesse and then cross
to the heart ace and take another spade finesse,
draw trumps and make all the tricks.
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