Dealer: South
Opening Lead:Â Â 5 | Experience is required to make anything — except mistakes. At 3NT, South would have needed either fine card sense or the experience of having seen a similar situation. (Try to find a winning play yourself.)South won the first spade with the ace and led the queen of hearts, winning, and a heart to dummy’s ten. East took the jack and returned a spade. South won in dummy and knew he couldn’t set up and cash another heart trick. He tried the A-K and a third club, hoping for a 3-3 break, but East took two clubs and the ace of hearts, and South also lost a diamond. Down one. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TRICK TWO South should lead a low heart to dummy’s ten at Trick Two. If East ducks, dummy leads another heart, and South is sure of two hearts, three spades, two clubs and two diamonds. If instead East takes the jack of hearts to return a spade, South wins with the queen and overtakes his queen of hearts with the king to set up three heart tricks: 10 in all. The king of spades is a dummy entry. DAILY QUESTION You hold: ANSWER Copyright © 2015, Tribune Media Services |
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