No Beastly Trump Promotion

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Dealer: West
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeK 10
  2. heartK 10 5 4
  3. diamond10 5 2
  4. club10 6 5 3
  1. spadeJ 9 7 5 4 2
  2. heart7 3
  3. diamondA Q 8
  4. clubA Q
club diamond heart spade NT
N - 1 - - -
S - 2 - - -
E 1 - 3 3 3
W 1 - 2 3 3
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA 6 3
  2. heartQ J 8 6 2
  3. diamond6
  4. clubJ 7 4 2

Contract: 4spade
Declarer: West
Lead: diamond2
  1. spadeQ 8
  2. heartA 9
  3. diamondK J 9 7 4 3
  4. clubK 9 8
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1spade Pass 2spade Pass
4spade Pass Pass Pass
Meckstroth won the lead with diamondQ and ruffed his losing diamond. After a successful club finesse, he cashed clubA and crossed over to dummy's spadeA. Nothing exciting happened, so declarer ruffed out clubK, ruffed diamondA(!!!), led clubJ from the dummy and discarded a heart loser as South ruffed with spadeQ.

By allowing for a favourable club situation - quite likely on the bidding - Meckstroth had thus given himself the best chance of making the contract against an adverse 3-1 trump break or any beastly trump promotion. He lost just two trumps tricks and one heart - plus 420.
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