Not Seduced by Other Possibility

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Dealer: West
Vuln: E-W
Scoring: Butler IMPs
  1. spadeA 10
  2. heartJ 7
  3. diamondA Q J 9 7 4 2
  4. club10 8
  1. spadeK J 9 8 7 5 2
  2. heartK 4 3
  3. diamond3
  4. club7 4
club diamond heart spade NT
N 3 4 2 - 3
S 3 4 2 - 3
E - - - 3 -
W - - - 3 -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeQ 6 4 3
  2. heartQ 9 8
  3. diamond10 8 6
  4. clubA K J

Contract: 5diamondx
Declarer: North
Lead: clubA
  1. spade—
  2. heartA 10 6 5 2
  3. diamondK 5
  4. clubQ 9 6 5 3 2
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
3spade 4diamond 4spade 5diamond
Pass Pass Dble Pass
Pass Pass
Pat Davies judged the distribution perfectly when she won heartA, played a diamond to diamondJ and ruffed spade10 with diamondK. She then cashed clubQ to ditch her losing heart, ruffed a heart to hand and claimed. It would have been easy to be seduced by the other possibility of a finding a two-two trump break.

It is easy to blame Auken for not switching to a heart at trick two, but her partner might have held a singleton - after all it would be routine for declarer to false-card at trick one with a holding of club1084.
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