This
deal is from an EBU online duplicate.
After
South had opened one diamond and West overcalled one
heart North doubled to show four spades. This
was not the partnership agreement, North had
forgotten that double showed less than four
spades. South had remembered and so assumed
there was no spade fit and bid what he hoped he
could make.
West
led a small heart, declarer played the jack from
dummy as he wanted to be there to take the spade
finesse. After the ten of spades held declarer
was able to run the spades with West throwing small
hearts. Now declarer cashed the diamonds,
carefully starting with a top honour from hand so
that he could pick up four one breaks with a
singleton ten or jack in either hand. After
cashing the diamonds it was clear that West had come
down to Kx in hearts and some high club
honours. South played a club, with West
holding both top honours there was nothing the
defence could do, West cashed his clubs and had to
lead away from the heart king at trick twelve.
Making eleven tricks in notrumps was a complete top,
as everyone else had played in spades, usually
making ten or eleven tricks.
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