Fullarton Teams - Final Two
| Board 14 East Deals None Vul | ♠ 2 ♥ 9 7 3 2 ♦ 10 6 3 ♣ A K Q 9 5 | ||||||||||
♠ K Q 10 3 ♥ A 8 6 ♦ A J 9 8 7 ♣ J |
| ♠ A 8 6 5 ♥ K Q J 4 ♦ K 5 ♣ 10 8 7 | |||||||||
| ♠ J 9 7 4 ♥ 10 5 ♦ Q 4 2 ♣ 6 4 3 2 |
| West | North | East | South |
| Livingston | Stuck | Burrows | Woodhall |
| 1 NT1 | Pass | ||
| 3 ♦2 | Pass | 3 ♥3 | Pass |
| 3 ♠3 | Pass | 4 ♣4 | Pass |
| 4 ♠5 | Pass | 4 NT6 | Pass |
| 5 ♣7 | Dbl | 5 ♦8 | Pass |
| 6 ♠9 | Pass | Pass | Pass |
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| 6 ♠ by West |
6♠ is an excellent contract and indeed double dummy can be made. However after two rounds of clubs forcing west to ruff the line to make is to cross to dummy and take a first round trump finesse for the ♠J and then bank everything on the very favourable diamond position. In practice the obvious and much better line of ruffing one more club and relying on a normal 3=2 trump division is how declarer should play this hand. Unfortunately as you can see that line fails on this particular layout.
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