What Went Wrong? by Paul Thurston A brief study of the layout of our first deal will show that South’s heart game is slated to go down one with the loss of one spade trick, two diamonds and the heart ace. As it happened, the defense managed to take only three of those tricks so declarer escaped with his game bonus. WHAT WENT WRONG? Dealer: North. Both vulnerable. N Q1075 M KJ65 L A74 K A6 N KJ9 N 843 M 7 M A84 L KQ102 L 986 K 108732 K Q954 N A62 M Q10932 L J53 K KJ
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South 1M 4M
Lead: 7M West’s choice for an opening lead wouldn’t get a majority vote from any panel on the topic but wasn’t totally unreasonable (my vote: the eight of clubs, second-best of a poor suit). East let the lead slide round to declarer who promptly played back another heart
