11th June 2025



Dealer North
S
A43
   
EW Game
H
AK984
   
    D AQ65
   
    C 2
   
S
52
    S
QJ1087
H
6532
    H
10
D
J10
    D
9842
C
Q9753
    C
K86
    S
K96    
    H
QJ7
   
    D
K73
   
    C
AJ104
   


South
West
North
East


1H Pass
2C Pass 2D Pass
2H Pass 2S  Pass
3C Pass 3H Pass
3S Pass 4D Pass
4NT Pass 5C Pass
5H Pass 6H Pass

Another deal from the Manchester league.

A long and complicated auction ended in a good six hearts by North on the queen of spades lead.
Declarer won in hand and played a club to the ace and ruffed a club.  Now two rounds of hearts ending in dummy revealed the 4-1 break.
Unable to succeed by a dummy reversal declarer played a third round of hearts.  East can afford a spade discard on this trick, but after a diamond to hand and a fourth heart East is triple squeezed (without the count).

In the other room declarer attempted to reverse the dummy, but failed to check that trumps were breaking, the 4-1 break defeated him.



Thanks to Phil Taylor for reporting this deal