BIGOT
GETS
SHAFTED
YET
AGAIN
BY
JOHNNY
SUPREMO
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On this hand it was Bigot's turn to get active in defense , having seen Johnny confidently sail into a rather ambitious game contract in clubs. Naturally Bigot stuck in a more than hopeful double in the knowledge that he had two certain winners, and his partner could well have one in diamonds.
With three aces missing, Johnny initially viewed the contract as hopeless, unless of course he could hoodwink Bigot into making a mistake. So when West led the three of spades towards Bigot's known suit, Johnny now hatched his cunning plan. He called for the 5 of spades from dummy !
Bigot of course took stock of the spade situation. Surely declarer would not have played low from dummy unless of course he held the 10. Therefore, it had to be right to take the trick with the Ace...... on which Johnny smoothly played the 7. Bigot stopped to analyse the situation further. " If declarer started with 107, then that suggests partner started off with 63, but in our system the top card from a doubleton is mandatory. This means partner's 3 must be a singleton with South holding 1076. "
Convinced by this line of reasoning, Bigot promptly played the 9 of spades at trick two ( a suit preference for hearts ) fully expecting partner to ruff.
Now the horror of having been shafted yet again by Johnny's deceptive play came to fruition, with Johnny discarding the first of his three hearts, drawing trumps, and pitching two more losing hearts and one diamond on dummy's top spades. With two trumps still left in dummy, Johnny limited his diamond losers to one. Game made.
To say that Bigot was an unhappy bunny would be an understatement......the man simply fell to the floor, curled up into the fetal position, and cried out for his dummy !
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