Careful With That Defence Eugene

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Dealer: West
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA Q 8 5 3
  2. heartQ 8 6 5 3
  3. diamond—
  4. clubK 9 6
  1. spadeJ 9 2
  2. heartK J
  3. diamondA K 2
  4. clubA Q 8 7 5
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - 5 4 1
S - - 5 4 1
E - 1 - - -
W - 1 - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spade10 7 4
  2. heart4
  3. diamondQ J 9 6 5
  4. clubJ 4 3 2

Contract: 6heartx
Declarer: South
Lead: diamondA
  1. spadeK 6
  2. heartA 10 9 7 2
  3. diamond10 8 7 4 3
  4. club10
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1club Dble Pass 4heart
Pass 6heart Pass Pass
Dble Pass Pass Pass
Our poor unfortunate West, reasoning that dummy must be void in clubs to justify the leap to 6heart, led the diamondA, as would all human beings. All other known species in the universe would have led the diamondK. Neither was a winning option. Declarer, who had been having too many of those interesting, wild mushrooms for breakfast, decided the best line was to throw his club loser on dummy's spades. This was a good idea, but not BEFORE drawing a round of trumps. West had to follow to three rounds of spades, and eventually came to just his trump trick. It was no surprise that he went on to lose the match.
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