Confidence In Partner

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Dealer: East
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade9 8 2
  2. heartA K 9 7
  3. diamondA 5
  4. clubA 7 6 4
  1. spadeQ J 10 6 5
  2. heart8 6 4 3
  3. diamond9
  4. club9 5 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N 5 3 6 4 5
S 5 3 6 4 5
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spade4 3
  2. heart5
  3. diamondK J 10 8 6 4
  4. clubQ 10 8 3

Contract: 6heart
Declarer: South
Lead: diamond9
  1. spadeA K 7
  2. heartQ J 10 2
  3. diamondQ 7 3 2
  4. clubK J
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
2diamond 2NT
Pass 3club* Pass 3heart
Pass 6heart Pass Pass
Pass

* Stayman

Goldman realised that a successful club finesse would bring twelve tricks, but after considering East's advertised diamond length he felt that West would be more likely to hold the clubs.

Adopting a reverse-dummy approach, declarer played three rounds of clubs, ruffing high in hand. heartJ was overtaken in dummy for the last club to be ruffed high. After cashing spadeA, East was known to be either 1-2-6-4 or 2-1-6-4. The odds heavily favoured West to hold heart8 and Goldman led his last trump - the two - and finessed heart7 in dummy! The remaining trumps were drawn and all that remained was to lead diamond5 towards South's queen. N-S +1430. Mr. Goldman obviously only finesses in the 50% of the time ... When they work!
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