Poor Bidding Or Poor Lead Or Poor Defence

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Dealer: North
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade9 8 6 2
  2. heartA 8 5 3
  3. diamondK 9
  4. clubA K 9
  1. spadeQ J 5
  2. heart7 4 2
  3. diamondQ 10 8 7 3
  4. clubQ 8
club diamond heart spade NT
N 1 - - 3 2
S - - - 3 2
E - 3 - - -
W - 3 - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spade—
  2. heartK Q J 10
  3. diamondA 5 4 2
  4. clubJ 6 5 4 3

Contract: 3spade
Declarer: South
Lead: diamond7
  1. spadeA K 10 7 4 3
  2. heart9 6
  3. diamondJ 6
  4. club10 7 2
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1NT Pass 2spade
Pass Pass 2NT Pass
Pass 3spade End
West led a low diamond, dummy played the nine and East won to switch to heartK, ducked as before. Declarer won heartA at the next trick and, when East showed out on the first spade, South cashed spadeAK and used dummy's club entries to eliminate hearts. A third round of trumps put West on lead to concede a ruff and discard. Nice play and ten tricks, but the bidding had already lost the board.

12/11/2024

Or had it? ..
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