Weight In Gold



28th May – Board 3: East/West Game. Dealer South.
The smaller cards in the pack are called the impletion and the better the impletion the more your hand is worth. The following hand shows how sometimes they can be worth their weight in gold.

North:
S A K
H K 10 8 7
D A 3
C J 10 7 5 4

West:
S 10 9 8 4
H Q 6 5 2
D K 2
C Q 6 3

East:
S J 7 3 2
H 9 4 3
D Q J 10 5 4
C A

South:
S Q 6 5
H A J
D 9 8 7 6
C K 9 8 2


  West
 North
  East
  South
     
    
   
    No
      No
     1C
    No
    3C
      No
    3NT
   End


Those good intermediate cards just about make it worthwhile for South to give a jump raise after which North can hardly do less than bid 3NT. With such a beguiling sequence East would be hard-pressed not to lead the queen of diamonds but that, alas, makes the contract cast-iron. If West plays the king then the nine in dummy becomes a second stop while if he doesn’t the suit becomes blocked when East takes the lead with the ace of clubs. Note that declarer must not hold-up in diamonds for if he does that he untangles the blockage for East/West. Of course East would have defeated the contract by the lead of a low diamond but that is pure hindsight and would be next to impossible to find at the table.

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