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Vuln: None
You are: S
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Board # 1 Dealer: Vuln:
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Bidding.
As dealer we open 1♣ and see partner quietly respond 1♠. We rebid 1NT to show a balanced 12 to 14 points and, having made a limit bid, await partner’s decision.
Well, the auction may have started pianissimo but it finishes rapidly with a deafening coda. North raises to 6NT.
Maybe partner has a flight to catch?
Play.
Against our slam West leads the ♦10. We thank partner and settle down to Count and Plan.
We can see two Spades, three Hearts, two (slow) Diamonds and two Clubs as sure winners. So we have nine winners. We need, therefore, three extras. Where are they coming from? Well, the whole deal depends on picking up the Club suit for five tricks. So, how do we play this Club combination?
We have eight cards in Clubs, missing the Queen, a combination that should immediately ring a bell. The Eight Ever, Nine Never adage ought to be bouncing around in our heads.
Trick one goes to East's Ace and a Diamond is returned. So, we are on lead at trick two, in dummy. There is no point delaying matters – we must attend to Clubs at once. So at trick two we lead a Club to our...King! Yes, we do intend to finesse East for the ♣Q, but just in case West has a singleton Queen, it is best to play a top honor first to guard against that improbable but possible layout.
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Yes, it's something around a 2% shot that West has the singleton ♣Q. Remember, though, that Las Vegas casinos make billions of dollars on 2% margins in their favor...
Does West play Her Majesty? Nope – he follows with the Nine. Right, with that small chance gone we revert to the main chance. We cross to dummy (with a Heart for choice) and now take a Club finesse. Should West produce the Queen our slam would fail. That’s the thing about finesses – you win some and you lose some. Here we win one – the Ten of Clubs holds the trick.
West’s Diamond discard tells us that Clubs are 4-1. Is that a problem? Not a bit of it! We cross back to dummy (we choose to use Hearts again as our transportation suit), and play another Club to the Jack – this time the finesse is marked. Now all the Clubs are good and the finishing line is in sight.
We cash our Clubs and take the rest of our top tricks. We make 6NT via two Spades, three Hearts, two Diamonds and five Clubs.
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