Declarer Nightmare

Dealer: East
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: Butler IMPs

  1. spade4 3
  2. heartJ 9 8 3
  3. diamondJ 9 4 2
  4. club8 6 4
  1. spadeK J 10 7 6
  2. heart
  3. diamondA Q 8 7 3
  4. club7 3 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - - - -
S - - - - -
E 4 4 3 4 3
W 4 4 3 4 3
Green square in centre
  1. spade8 2
  2. heartA Q 10 6 5 2
  3. diamondK
  4. clubA Q J 10

Contract: 2diamondx
Declarer: North
Lead: clubQ

  1. spadeA Q 9 5
  2. heartK 7 4
  3. diamond10 6 5
  4. clubK 9 5
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1heart Dble
Rdble 2diamond Pass Pass
Dble Pass Pass Pass
. . . it wasn't diamondK, but clubQ! Imagine you are North - would you have put on the king? East now switched to a spade and North was in the middle of a nightmare. As you can see, West was able to pitch a club on East's heartA and clubK was ruffed out, so North never made a club trick. Eventually declarer scrambled three tricks for minus 1100.

The problem started with South's horrible double. Although it was a bid made at many tables, only Zia did not bid 1spade as West, and only in this case was South punished.
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