Through the Pack at Glenfield

The Queen of Spades

I was instrumental in helping my owner, Judith Taylor, gain a good score for Glenfield in the match against John Storer House on 9^th October 2002.
	North S AQJT7 H 4 D J862 C K93	Dealer North Game All	Judith began well by passing. East opened one diamond, west bid two clubs, east bid two spades and west bid three no trumps. Not an auction I would personally recommend. I was the selected lead and I gave declarer quite a problem. He ducked in dummy allowing me to take the trick. Judith continued with the jack of spades. Again declarer ducked. Judith continued with the ten of spades. Again declarer ducked. Judith followed with the Ace and seven of spades and the defence still had a club trick to come to set the contract by two tricks. Did declarer play correctly? No. It can only gain to duck when South holds Ax or Axx which is a probability of about 17% as against the better than 50% odds of north having the Ace. Peter and Lesley Neville also bid the east west cards to three no trumps but played them better, making eight tricks. Barbel Sandhu and Ken Skinner chose to defend north’s contract of two spades and defeated it by one trick.
West S 32 H AK7 D QT54 C JT65		East S K654 H 632 D AK93 C A2
	South S 98 H QJT985 D 7 C Q874

The next card is the Jack of Spades.

The previous card was the King of Spades.

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