Well Known Ruse

Pages: Page 3 of 4

Dealer: North
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: Pairs
  1. spadeA 9 7 5
  2. heartK Q 6 3
  3. diamond9 6
  4. clubA K 9
Green square in centre
  1. spadeK Q 10 4
  2. heartA 8
  3. diamondA K Q 10 8
  4. club6 5

Contract: 7spade
Declarer: East
Lead: heart4
West North East South
1diamond Pass
2NT* Pass 3spade Pass
4club~ Pass 4NT Pass
5heart# Pass 5NT Pass
6heart! Pass 7spade End

* Baron, 16+ balanced
~ cue-bid agreeing spades
# 2 key cards, no spadeQ
! 2 kings

Our East, like many of the others, launched into 4NT Roman Key Card Blackwood. After finding West held all four of the missing big cards, he decided that a making any grand slam would be a good score and settled for 7spade.

How would you play on the lead of heart4?
Previous page Next page

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