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More play hands, LM pairs final San Francisco
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Found time to watch a few more hands in the open (formerly Men's) LM pairs final. The auction started with a rather unsound weak
opening, and ended in a sound 
contract. The DBL of 
was penalty, and East reluctantly passed over .Declarer won the trump lead in hand to lead a heart to the queen and ace. East now cashed the club ace and led a second heart ruffed. What now?
If spades are 3-3 or diamonds 2-2 it will be easy to take 10 tricks, but the auction tempo and play so far suggest East may be 4-2-1-6. With no suit splitting declarer must take care to win 10 tricks. The winning line is to cash the club king throwing a spade, ruff a club. This leads to:
When South leads a spade in this position, the defense can't stop declarer from getting another ruff in dummy (either a spade, or a club if East gives a ruff-sluff) and cashing two spades. If East instead were 2-3-1-7 its easy for declarer to still take 10 tricks.
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