Not Too Greedy

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Dealer: East
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeQ J 10 6 4
  2. heartK 4
  3. diamondK 7
  4. club10 6 5 3
  1. spadeA K 5
  2. heart7 6 3
  3. diamond9 6 2
  4. clubA K Q 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N 1 1 2 1 1
S 1 1 2 1 1
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spade8 3 2
  2. heartQ 8 2
  3. diamondQ J 10 4
  4. club9 8 4

Contract: 2spade
Declarer: North
Lead: club8
  1. spade9 7
  2. heartA J 10 9 5
  3. diamondA 8 5 3
  4. clubJ 7
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass Pass
1club 1spade Pass 2heart*
Pass 2spade End

* spade tolerance

At the table West played a crafty low spade at trick two. This ran around to dummy and declarer could see what was going to happen if he played a second club. Accordingly he crossed to heartK, finessed heartJ and pitched a club on heartA, truncating his losers to five in the process.

West was too greedy. By leading a low spade at trick two he was trying to cater for East to have something like spadeJx(x). Sometimes it doesn't pay to be too crafty.

North would have better advised to pass 2heart - that's more difficult to get at for the defence.
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