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Dealer : West
Vuln : East-West

KANTAR'S KORNER #4

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	North J 4 10 8 3 A J 10 9 8 J 6 5
West K 9 5 A 9 7 6 5 4 2 — K Q 7	East 10 8 7 3 J K 7 6 5 4 3 10 2
	South You A Q 6 2 K Q Q 2 A 9 8 4 3

After the Q holds at trick two, you are in a bit
of trouble. With no dummy entry to the diamonds
and all the missing honors marked to your left,
it looks bad. But there is a way out. Play a
second diamond to the ace and then a third
diamond discarding your last heart!

You have created a heart stopper in dummy.
If the opponents want to play hearts, dummy
is going to take a trick in the suit. In practice,
East won the K and shifted to a club, ducked
to West's queen.

West didn't have much choice, so he did his
best by playing the ace and a heart, putting
dummy on play. Dummy's two remaining
diamonds were cashed, and now everyone
was down to four cards.

	North J 4 — — J 6
West K 9 — — K 7	East 10 8 7 — 10
	South You A Q — — A 9

Dummy had the Jx of both black suits, West,
the Kx of both black suits and South, the Ax
of clubs and the AQ of spades. South played
the ace and a club giving up a trick to West's
king, but took tricks eight and nine with the
AQ of spades. So, have you been reading the
right books?

South — 1NT 3NT	West 1 2 all pass	North pass 3	East pass pass
Opening lead: 6

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