This
deal from a duplicate at Bramhall, shows that not
all bridge play is perfect.
After
a simple Stayman sequence South arrived in three
notrump, after North had overbid slightly.
West
led a club. This is a terrible contract,
declarer probably needing to find the diamonds
behaving and both the ace of spades and king of
hearts onside.
He
won the first club in hand and played a diamond to
the queen successfully, now two rounds of clubs
followed and another diamond towards dummy.
West did well to duck so declarer now played a third
diamond won by West who switched to a heart to the
queen and ace. Declarer now had to cash his
last club West and East throwing spades. The
only card declarer could afford from dummy was the
now useless eight of diamonds. The position
now was as below
Declarer
tried a heart mistakenly won by West who then cashed
the spade ace and exited with a spade.
Declarer was now down to the eight and five of
hearts, while West had the seven and East the ten
and four. The eight of hearts pinned the
seven, East winning with the ten and now the five of
hearts beat the four for the ninth trick. I
would like to say that this was a fine play by
declarer who had kept track of all the spot cards in
hearts, but in fact he was rather surprised to win
the last trick.
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