This
deal is from the National Online League earlier this
month.
West
leads the four of spades to your queen and
declarer's ace.
Declarer
now plays the jack of diamonds to the queen and ace,
then a diamond back to the ten partner following
with the eight.
Now
the two of clubs goes to the six and queen followed
by a diamond to your nine, declarer discarding the
nine of spades and partner the nine of clubs.
Plan
your defence.
Scroll
down for analysis
It
looks
as though declarer has the ace, king of clubs, the
ace of spades and the jack of diamonds for his
opening bid. If you play back a spade declarer
will make four diamond, two spade and at least three
club tricks. You need partner to hold hearts
as good as AK8x and to be awake. If you play a
low heart to his presumed king and he plays a low
heart back to your queen then you play the six of
hearts partner will make two more heart tricks with
the A8 over declarer's 97.
See
below for the full deal. Note that declarer
could have made by playing for clubs to break evenly
when the diamond finesse worked.
If the heart suit had been
J10
AK74
Q85
9632
East
would have to start with the eight of hearts to
avoid blocking the suit.
Thanks to Raymond Semp for reporting this deal and to John Hassett for analysis |
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