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A Lightner Double

Posted by Maurice Ripley on Monday, 24 October 2016 at 20:11

Match 4, board 12

 

The bidding at our table went

Forewarned by the Lightner Double (and heeding instructions!) partner duely lead ♠J, ducked; ♠10 overtaken by ♠Q and I returned ♥10 which held. ♥2 was also ducked, taken by North and the ♥A claimed declarer's ♥K.  After a further 3 heart tricks partner led his last spade to pin the ♠K.  The result of a not-unreasonable bid was 7 off, -1700 for declarer, compared to making nine tricks on the more normal non spade lead.