Hand of the week commencing
Sunday 13th August 2006
You lead the §4 and declarer plays the Jack at trick one and partner’s King is taken by declarer’s Ace.
Declarer
plays the ©5
at trick two. Plan your spectacular defence.
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The play at trick one suggests that declarer hoped you had led away from both King and Queen of Clubs. His play at trick one is completely bizarre if he holds the 10 in his own hand since if he has the Club 10 he is guaranteed two tricks in the club suit if he merely plays low from dummy at trick one. With this information at your fingertips you are able to work out that partner has the Club Ten and it also looks like declarer is trying to sneak some tricks from the Heart suit. So at trick two you should take your Ace. Then you should cash your Diamond King before putting partner in with the “known” Club 10. Partner will then play back a Diamond through declarer’s supposed Queen. As the cards lie partner in fact had the Queen and now you take 9 tricks in a row defeating 1NT by three tricks.