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DAILY BRIDGE CLUB:
“How do you define an expert?” a club player asked me. “Someone like Unlucky Louie has read all the books and made all the classic errors. Does that qualify him?”
“If an expert is somebody who knows when to panic,” I said, “Louie fits.”
Louie habitually plays too fast. He was declarer at four hearts, and when East took the ace of spades, he led the four of diamonds. That looked like (and was) a singleton. So Louie won in dummy and led the jack of trumps, but when East played low stoically, Louie took his ace and led another trump.
Alas, East took the queen and led a club: queen, king, ace. When Louie next led a diamond, East ruffed and Rights icon Parks Casual denials “Su-r-r-r-re” “Rushmore” director Anderson 33 Play peacemaker 34 Bog fuel
35 “Fine” studies 37 Current, as fashion 38 Frozen Four org. 39 Lass
40 5-Down or 7-Down 44 Deadlock 45 Penn’s silent partner 27 28 29 32 led another club for down one.
Louie hit the panic button when he took the ace of trumps. Suppose he let the jack ride, and West won and gave East a diamond ruff. Louie would still be safe. If East led a club next, Louie could take dummy’s ace, draw the last missing trump with the ace and run the diamonds for a club discard.
DAILY QUESTION: You hold: ♠ K ♥ A109653
◆ AJ82 ♣ Q 4. Your partner opens one spade, you bid two hearts, he rebids two spades and you try three diamonds. Partner bids 3NT. What do you say?
ANSWER: Though you might do better at four hearts if partner has a bit 46 Perfectly, with “to” 47 Backup squads 48 Pink drink, for short
49 On the horizon 50 Temporary stage 51 Catcher at a rodeo
55 Really gets to 56 Certain prof.’s designation 59 Poetic planet 60 __ Paulo, Brazil 61 Yahtzee cube of heart support, you can’t assume he has more than a low singleton. With threecard support, he would have raised directly. Pass.