NEWS FLASH :
JOHNNY
SHAFTS
BIGOT BIG
TIME........


The long awaited showdown between 
Johnny Supremo and Bigot-Johnson came to fruition , when they faced up to each other on table 1 on the final round of the Walnut Tree Invitation Swiss Pairs competition.
Bigot was with his favourite partner , Freddie Flywheel , and with this 7 board match very much in the balance , the trophy was going to be determined by the outcome of this hand. By bidding his way to 7S , Bigot seemingly had his greasy mitts on the silverware....but if only he could steer the contract home on a heart lead. 
As the cards lie , he could afford to ruff the third round of hearts high, clear trumps ( discarding a diamond from dummy ) , then test diamonds first to see if the queen falls ,  before playing off 4 rounds of clubs ( discarding his losing diamond ) , claiming 13 tricks. 
But Johnny sitting East had envisaged all this , and being a great believer in the nil desperandum philosophy decided there was a glimmer of hope in redirecting Bigot to follow a different line.....one that might possibly cost him the contract.
So when Bigot took the first heart trick in dummy, he played off two round of trumps with his Ace and Queen , getting the news about the mildly irritating 4-1 trump break. Still full of confidence ,  he cashed the King of hearts at trick 4 , and played another heart to be ruffed by dummy's King......only to see Johnny under-ruff  with his 6 of spades !
What on earth was going on ? Why on earth would Johnny do that ? Bigot's expert analysis came to the only possible conclusion : with 2 H and 4S , the bugger must also be holding 3 diamonds to the queen and four clubs to the jack.  " I can't squeeze him with two more round of spades since dummy has to discard ahead of him , so the finesse of the club with my wonderful 9 will surely see the contract home. But first I must cash my top two diamonds just in case the queen does fall ". 
With no luck in the diamond department , Bigot quickly overtook his spade 8 with dummy's 9 , to play out clubs. However, to his great shock and horror , when the 9 of clubs was played from hand   West pounced on it with his jack , his face filling up with unbridled joy as he did so. Then to add even more misery on a distraught and shell-shocked Bigot , the diamond switch secured another defensive trick for the trophy winners.
Yet again Johnny reigned supreme.  Bigot indeed had been shafted good and proper.......... proving that bad-uns in bridge always get their comeuppance..........