Friendly Hand

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Dealer: North
Vuln: E-W
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA 6 4
  2. heart10 9 7 5 3
  3. diamondK Q J 2
  4. club4
  1. spadeQ 10 7 5 3
  2. heartA
  3. diamond8 7 5 4 3
  4. clubQ 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - 2 - -
S - - 3 - -
E 4 2 - 1 3
W 4 2 - 1 3
Green square in centre
  1. spade9 2
  2. heartK 6 4
  3. diamondA 9
  4. clubA K J 10 7 6

Contract: 3heart
Declarer: South
Lead: clubQ
  1. spadeK J 8
  2. heartQ J 8 2
  3. diamond10 6
  4. club9 8 5 3
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass 2club* Pass
Pass Dble Pass 2heart
2spade 3heart End

* Precision

This is one of those friendly hands that seemed to play itself. The worrying spade switch threatened to create five winners for the defence, so Upton naturally decided to create some diamond winners to enable spade discards.

The small diamond from dummy was won by the ace and east continued with another spade. Declarer won spadeK, and started the diamonds only to see East ruff low. South over-ruffed, entered dummy with a club ruff and led diamondJ. Again East ruffed low and again South over-ruffed. Although declarer now had no parking space for the spade loser the defenders' trump honours crashed!.

3heart made for +140.
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