Eloping with Trumps |
Hervé Pacault made good use of his trumps on this deal from the second round of the Teams:
Against South's Four Spades, West led Q. Pacault won and at once set about a dummy reversal. He played a heart to the ace and ruffed a heart, a trump to dummy and another heart ruff, a second trump to dummy, and ruffed the last heart. Then he took king of clubs and ruffed a club in dummy. East had to over-ruff to prevent declarer having ten tricks immediately. But now West had to lead a diamond. He actually led a low one. West's king was beaten and another diamond set up declarer's tenth trick. If East had switched to Q then South would have let it hold, end-playing East. |
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