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South, the dealer, opened the contracting with one club, West passed and North bid ong trump. East passed and South hid two clubs, North went to three no tramp but South, feeling quite confident that there was no game in no trump due to the distribu- tion of his hand, bid five clubs. West passed, North passed and East did not double, not wishing to give information regarding his club holding.
The Play.
won the trick
West has a choice of three suits. In open. The expert does not like to lend away from a king, there- fore the heart suit was selected South, and the three spot led. the declarer,
with the king and immediately led the queen of spades which East won with the ace and returned the jack of hearts, duminy winning The nine of clubs. with the acı, was led from dummy and the do- clarer took the finesse, playing the deucc
11 from his own hand. held the trick and the dummy con- tinued with the eight of clubs, declarer playing the seven, West showing out, discarding the eight of spades. The deuce of spades in led from dummy and trumped by the declarer with the ten of clubs. Declarer then leads small diamond to dummy's queen and returns the five of spades the form dummy, trumping with jack of clubs. Declarer then leads the seven of diamonds, winning in the dummy with the ace.
play:
Now for the beautiful the dummy leads the three of dia- monds. If Enst trumps with the six of clubs, the declarer will play the eight of diamonds, and regardless of what East lends, the declarer can trump with the queen of clubs, lend an ace and pick up East's king and then cash his good king of diamonds. The best play for East to make 18 to discard the eight of hearts on the three of diamonds, The declarer will then win the trick with the king of diamonds and will return the eight of diamonds which West will win with the jack, East discarding the jack of spades. All West can do is to lend heart which East is forced trump. The declarer will over- trump and pick up East's king with his aco.
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