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Contract: 3 |
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| Pass | 2 |
Pass | 2 |
| Pass | 3 |
Pass | Pass |
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10 to try and induce a switch from East, while also retaining the safety position that prevented West from attacking the suit from his side. Sure enough 
3 hit the deck, and the defence played three rounds on which Eric threw the carefully hidden 4. After a diamond to the king, declarer passed Q through West, noting the fall of 10 from East. A heart to the eight, East throwing a spade, was followed by a diamond ruff in hand reducing everyone to 5 cards..
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