Mike Yuen — Mike talks about bridge

The 14th NEC CUP **

Board 44.

Dealer West. North-South vulnerable.

 

North

♠ A92

Q976

4

West

AKJ32

East

♠ KQJ863

♠ 104

853

10

AKJ10

Q9532

♣ void

South

Q9875

♠ 75

AKJ42

876

♣ 1064

 

In the Closed Room the auction was

West

North

East

South

1S

2C

pass

2H

2S

4D*

4S

5C

5S

6H

pass

pass

   6S    DBL    all pass

 

Sun (North) led the diamond four and got the diamond ruff to beat six spades three tricks for plus 500.

In the Open Room the auction was

West

North

East

South

1C*

pass

1D*

pass

1S

pass

pass

2H

2S

4H

pass

pass

   4S    DBL    All pass

 

Here 1C was strong and 1D was negative. On the club ace lead The Chinese declarer Wang Wenfei made four spades doubled 10 tricks plus 590 for 14 imps.

To beat four spades North would have to lead a low spade at trick one.


2 Comments

Roy HughesFebruary 14th, 2009 at 3:53 pm

That’s an interesting deal. The successful leads against 4S are a low trump or a diamond. On a diamond lead, declarer can win and surrender a heart. The defense takes its heart ruff and then has a choice of plays: ace and a trump restricts declarer to 5 trumps and 4 diamonds; the fancier play of a low trump keeps declarer to 5 trumps, 3 diamonds and a heart ruff.

MichaelFebruary 14th, 2009 at 5:32 pm

Yes you are correct. I meant to say in addition to a diamon lead as in the other room, a low trump lead also defeats four spades.

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