Categories:
Defense
Dealer: North Vul: BOTH
Contract: 4♠ By: South
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NORTH
♠K Q 7 2
♥A J 10
♦A J 9 7 3
♣4
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WEST
♠8 5
♥Q 7 3
♦K 10 8 4
♣K Q 10 6
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West |
North |
East |
South |
| 1♦ | Pass | 1♠ |
Pass | 3♠ | Pass | 4♠ |
Pass | Pass | Pass | |
You (West) lead ♣K, partner plays an ecouraging ♣8. In the next round, you lead ♣6 which dummy ruffs, both declarer and partner follow. Declarer then draw a round of trump using table's ♠K. Next, declarer plays a
♦J from table, East follows with the
♦2 and declarer plays
♦5 to your
♦K. Now it is the ciritical moment, which card will you lead?
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NORTH
♠Q 7
♥A J 10
♦A 9 7 3
♣--
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WEST
♠8
♥Q 7 3
♦10 8 4
♣Q 10
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♣10 You may think of leading the trump to weaken declarer's ruff ability. However, it does not work as declarer can take 4 spades, 4 dimaonds, the heart ace and a club ruff. You may consider the possibility of singleton diamond and return a diamond for him to ruff. Even your partner ruff on the diamond return, when the declarer wins the next trick, he can draw the outstanding trump in one more round and wins four tumps, three diamonds, the heart ace and another round of club ruff. The killing lead is in ♣10, which force dummy to ruff. From there, the declarer can only draw the trump with table's bare ♠Q. Declarer got no entry to hand to draw the last trump. The contract ends with down two.
Statistics
♠8 (38%)
♦4 (22%)
♣10 (11%)
♦10 (11%)
♥3 (5%)
♥7 (5%)
♥Q (5%)
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