Hi all
I have a small defensive problem for you. It occurred at Dennis’ table last Tuesday at BC Star.
LHO opens 1
, a Bergen 3
on your right and left decides he has enough for game. Partner starts with the 
2 (odd leads) and dummy hits the table. You take the trick with your Ace and return the King of 
.
Declarer takes your King with the Ace and plays the Queen for partner’s King. The from partner is ruffed and declarer throws the remaining from dummy on his Jack of . Two top follow (partner following once) and declarer doesn’t look happy seeing he has a trump loser, but puts you in with a third round.
Declarer skillfully removed all the black suits. It looks as if you have to open up or give a ruff and discard.
Let’s analyze.
Declarer surely doesn’t have King-Queen in , else he would have claimed. What about distribution? This one is easy, declarer has a 3-5-4-1.
The picture is complete. A ruff and discard cannot help declarer, for he can discard just one . He will still be left with a loser in the suit or a complete guess about the Queen. Let declarer solve his own problem, maybe he’ll go wrong…
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