Missing the boat
This week’s deal comes from an all-expert high-stakes rubber. The expert South missed the boat, however.
* Very marginal – bidding Five over Five is rarely right. Here Five Diamonds (which North would double) would be two down.
West led a low Diamond, and East won the Ace and returned the Queen, declarer ruffing. At Trick Two, declarer cashed the King of Trumps, and not unsurprisingly given East’s bidding, he discarded.
