Dealer
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Vuln : Both |
KANTAR'S
KORNER #3
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Most
rubber bridge players complain bitterly that they don't
hold as many aces and kings as their opponents. Yet
you seldom hear anyone complain about not holding enough
deuces! Yet the deuce has proven time and again to be the
most valuable card in the deck....in the hands of an expert.
North-South
belong in 6NT (with the spade finesse working) because a
diamond ruff will immediately defeat 6 . But South made 6!
South
knew from the bidding (and the lead) that West had led a
singleton. However from East's point of view, the lead was
either a singleton or from 3 2 doubleton. When East played
the ace, South, blessed with the deuce, dropped the king!
Who can blame East for thinking that partner had led from
the 3 2 doubleton?
East
shifted to a trump at trick two. Suddenly South was alive,
alive! South won the trump shift in dummy, took the successful
spade finesse, played two more rounds of trump ending in
dummy, repeated the spade finesse, ruffed a spade, and finally
discarded his precious, precious, deuce of diamonds on dummy's
third heart. Bridge is such an easy game - when you are so
tricky!
To
all my readers,
I'd like to invite you to my website:
http://www.kantarbridge.com |
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