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This hand helped Larry Cohen and David Berkowitz win the National Open Pairs in Reno, Nevada last month. Cohen, as North, thought his partner might be going for 800. East thought he'd give the master of the Law of Total Tricks a taste of his own medicine by passing West's negative double. South thought he was going down one, for that magic 200 to East-West. But after winning two top clubs, East switched to the wrong suit at trick three. He led a spade and Berkowitz won in dummy to discard his jack of diamonds on the jack of clubs. Berkowitz eventually lost two trump tricks to score +730.

On a high level, West's second club play should be suit-preference between spades and diamonds. West played the 3, so this called for a diamond switch.

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