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Jimmy Sez # 24

 

Sometime in order to sell your product you have to paint a very pretty picture.  It is obvious that you have three sure losers in 5 spades on the  following hand unless your opponents buy into the picture you paint for them.  I was playing South with my brother.  Who could blame him, on the bidding, for taking this phantom save.  He was sure that 5 hearts would make and that we couldn’t be wrong in bidding 5 spades.

 

                                                S- A J 10 9 7 2

                                                H- 4

                                                D- 10 8 6

                   S- ------                 C- A 10 7             S- 5 4

                   H- J 8 7 3 2                                       H- A K 10 6 5

                   D- A 5 4                                            D- Q 3 2

                   C- J 8 5 4 2         S- K Q 8 6 3        C- K 9 6

                                                H- Q 9

                                                D- K J 9 7

                                                C- Q 3

          Bidding

E       S       W      N

1H     1S     4H     4S    

pass pass 5H!    5S?

pass pass pass         

 

Lead: 8H

 

I dropped the heart queen on the king.  I needed to keep the other heart as a threat and I hoped East would shift not wanting to give a ruff sluff.  He bit and shifted to a diamond.  West took the ace and continued the suit hoping partner had the king.  I took the lead and ran all 6 spades as East discarded all of her hearts and a club.  I discarded the club queen in case it needed to be unblocked. 

 

This was the position as I led the last diamond:

 

                                                S-

                                                H-

                                                D-

                   S-                         C- A 10 7             S-

H-                                                                                                                                       H- A

D-                                                                                                                                      D-

C- J 8 5               S-                         C- K 9

                                                H- 9  

                                                D- 7

                                                C- 3

 

When the last diamond was played East let go of the heart ace allowing my 9 to make and giving me the contract.  This psuedo worked because of the picture painted at trick one.  Had East continued with the heart ace at trick 2 the contract must go down.

 

       

 

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