Hand of the day #641
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The Aces On Bridge by Bobby Wolff
Opening Lead: ♣9
Antonio Sementa of Italy was the hero of today's deal. If you want to try it first as a single-dummy problem, then cover the East and West hands and play five diamonds on the friendly lead of West's singleton club.
Sementa won the club cheaply in dummy and rejected the idea of drawing only two rounds of trump before playing clubs. Had he done so, West would have ruffed in and would now have defeated the hand by cashing his side’s spade winner and eventually collecting a heart trick. Instead Sementa drew all the trumps, ending in dummy.
In a comparable position, a fine declarer had ruffed out the clubs and led a low spade from hand. East won, and could now have set the hand by playing back a spade. That would have allowed West to keep a spade winner at the end, since both North and South were out of trumps.
Sementa instead made the key play of leading a heart from dummy, relying on East (known to have four clubs and two diamonds, and presumably only five spades, since East-West had not bid) to have a doubleton heart honor.
When West took the heart king and played back a spade, East could lead a further spade, forcing dummy to trump and denuding North of side entries. But Sementa ruffed out the clubs, then played the heart ace, dropping the queen, and dummy was good.
Although this play might have led to extra undertricks, this was really the only legitimate chance for the contract.
Bid with the aces
Answer: 3♣
Despite the fact that you have a 12-count, your side does not necessarily have a game here. A pessimistic approach would be to invite game with two no-trump or to raise to three diamonds. A more aggressive approach is to bid three clubs, a cuebid asking partner to show a club stopper or to make a descriptive call. If you take that action and hear a three-diamond rebid, you might elect to pass.
This Hand of the Day was originally published on aces.bridgeblogging.com.
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