Another
deal from a second round Higson Cup knock out match.
After
East opened one diamond, West made a pre-emptive
raise to three diamonds, North doubled for take out
and aggressively raised South's three spades to
game.
Prospects
did not look good on the queen of clubs lead,
declarer needed East to only have two clubs unless
the queen and jack of spades were doubleton.
Declarer
ducked the club queen and the jack that followed,
won by East with the ace. East now forced
dummy to ruff a diamond. South now thought
that he needed the hearts to break to make the
contract, so played ace and king of hearts followed
by a third one which he ruffed with the ten, just in
case. When West was unable to overruff South
played the king and ace of spades and was able to
ruff the fourth heart. Fortunately South had
unblocked the nine of clubs on the second round of
clubs (without realising why this would be
necessary) so now he could play a club to the
eight. East was helpless, he could ruff a
plain suit winner at some point, but then dummy was
good.
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