Fatherly Advice

Dealer: East
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: Rubber

  1. spadeA 5 4 2
  2. heartA 3 2
  3. diamond10 7 5 4
  4. club3 2
Green square in centre

Contract: 4heart
Declarer: South
Lead: heart4

  1. spadeK 7
  2. heartK Q J 10 9 5
  3. diamondA
  4. clubJ 9 5 4
West North East South
1spade 3heart
Pass 4heart Pass Pass
Pass
Still hopeful of obtaining the one club ruff to secure his contract, declarer led a club. West won with the ten, and continued with another trump. South won in the dummy and led a further club, hoping to put the pressure on East if he held ace or ace-king of clubs. No, East plays low and West wins to play a third trump to destroy any chance of a ruff in dummy.

Undeterred, South invoked the Harrison-Gray advice of playing out your long suit to see what happens...
Previous page Next page

This section is a placeholder for the forum. For the time being it will be a noshow class.