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West found a potentially dangerous but highly effective switch when led 4 at trick two! Declarer, a highly gifted player, was aware that West might hold both queen and jack of spades but eventually put in 8 from dummy. On winning East's nine with the king, South advanced Q, ducked all round. Still playing East for a spade honour, South had assigned K to West for his double so declarer's next card was J - and that meant two off and +500 for the defenders' resourcefulness. Unless the defence did something daft then this contract was always going one off - it just required a little nudge to get the extra 300. Well defended indeed!
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