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Here are the east and west hands
and the bidding:
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South West North East
P 1C
P 1S P 2C
P 2H P 2N
P 4N* P 5D**
P 6N
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Roman Key Card blackwood
**1
key card with hearts, the last bid suit, as trump
Opening
lead: 10D
Bidding:
West got into a bind jumping to 4N so fast, although about the only forcing bid
he could make would be 3D. How this would be interpreted is questionable. If
East bid 3N, West is still in a bind about blackwood. Had Clubs been
established as trump, East could have then responded 5S to RKC blackwood
showing 2 key cards and the queen of trump. As it was, West was stuck because
if he bid 5N, that would be asking for kings. The only way to get partner to
stop in 5N would be to bid an unbid suit, which asks partner to bid 5N. Alas,
the only unbid suit was diamonds and that was what East bid in response to
blackwood, so West just bit the bullet and bid 6N.
Play:
Actually, both 6N and 6C can make. But East, as declarer, ran the clubs,
discarding spades, ending her chance to make the contract.
The
diamond lead into her AKJ gave her 10 cold tricks, 6 clubs, 3 diamonds and one
heart. How do you get two more? You can try to finesse the heart king twice,
but that’s a 50% play. If it loses, you also lose the ace of spades. There is,
however, a 100% play. What you have to do immediately is to set up the spades,
and it doesn’t matter how they split. Lead the spade queen. If that holds for
the 11th trick, go to the board in spades where you have the king
and the jack. When they take the ace, your jack is your 12th trick
and you don’t have to take the heart finesse.
I
played this hand at a club game, playing West. Nobody got to the right
contract, 6N, but us. Just about everyone was in 3N, making 5 or 6. A heart
lead (hard to find) holds it to 5.
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