Did You See THAT!

At the Transnational Mixed Teams in Beijing. During Round 12 of the Swiss, Canada's Susan Culham (South) was playing with Bryan Maksymetz (North) against Team S. Rimstedt when board 24 arrived at the table.

		♠	KQ82
		♥	AK85
		♦	10754
		♣	8
♠	J963			♠	754
♥	J2			♥	1063
♦	6			♦	AQJ3
♣	A109543			♣	Q76
		♠	A10
		♥	Q974
		♦	K982
		♣	KJ2

Dealer West. None Vul. This was the auction.

West	North	East	South
pass	1◊	pass	1♥
DBL	3♥	pass	3♠
pass	4♣	pass	4◊
pass	4♥	pass	pass
pass

West led the diamond six, seven, ace and two. The diamond queen came back, king, ruffed by West with the heart two, four. He led back the Heart jack, ace, three and four. Susan played the Heart five, six, queen and West discarded the club three.

Susan can see she is a trick short for her contract even if she guessed the club position, came up with the fantastic play of the spade ten, three, two and four. After spade ace, six, eight and seven. Susan played heart nine, club five, king, ten. She was able to discard her diamond losers on the king and queen of spade. Led club eight, seven, finessed the jack and ace. The club king was her tenth trick. Four hearts made for plus 420. Keeping her teams' hope for making it to the KO stage alive.

It was not easy for West to cover the spade ten as the spade eight in dummy may then come into play.

At this point the west player turned around to his friends that were watching and asked "Did you see THAT!"