Through the Pack at Glenfield

The Seven of Spades

West must have hoped to defeat North’s Four Spade contract on this deal from Glenfield Bridge Club on 31^st January 2004.
Board 21 Dealer N NS Vul	North ª AKQ7654 © 8 ¨ Q85 § QT		East led the ace of diamonds, and continued with the king and the four. Declarer, who had played the queen at trick one in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade East to switch, won with dummy’s jack and led the ten of spades. West twitched a little before playing the two but declarer played the ace and was disappointed when East discarded. It was bad news for declarer but good news for me as I was about to come into the play. First, declarer had to shorten his trumps to the same number as West. He crossed to dummy’s ace of hearts and ruffed a heart. Then he crossed to the ace of clubs and ruffed dummy’s last heart. Then came a club to dummy’s king. When West had to follow to this trick declarer was home. Dummy’s jack of clubs was led. West’s last four cards were the J983 of trumps. Declare had the KQ76 and could afford to lose one more trick. If West ruffed low, declarer could have overruffed with me. West prolonged the agony by playing the eight of spades. Declarer overruffed with the queen and led the six of spades. West won the nine but was fixed and had to lead from J3 into declarer’s K7. He tried the jack, so declarer took the king and played me to the last trick for his contract. Of course, three no trumps was a much better contract, but it was difficult to reach and only one pair got there. Best East/West score went to Peter Tyers and Margaret Glover who defended SIX spades doubled and took it two down.
West ª J9832 © KT2 ¨ T73 § 63		East ª © QJ9764 ¨ AK42 § 752
	South ª T © A53 ¨ J96 § AKJ984

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The previous card was the eight of spades

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