Source: IBPA Bulletins, October 1999
This is a shortened version of the story told to Colker by Dick Budd of Maine about a deal from the ACBL Nationals at San Antonio:
You are South: A Q 10 8 x x x x
A x
K Q x
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“I was South,” said Budd. “RHO opened 3, so I jumped to 4
. Now LHO doubled with the calm firmness of a man who has you precisely where he wants you. Not loud, but confident.
LHO led the smallest outstanding heart, and these is what you see:
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You presumably win the ace. What next?”
![Dick Budd](http://csbnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Dick-Budd.jpg)
After a pause that was clearly longer than Dick could tolerate he said, “Okay, you try the Q. LHO wins the king, RHO pitching a heart, and then leads the
K. You duck in dummy, ruff it in hand, and then play ace and another trump. Now LHO is in again. He can’t lead a trump or a heart because he has no more of either. He can’t lead a club or you’ll finesse and pitch your two losing red cards on the ace and jack. He can’t lead a low diamond or you’ll play dummy’s ten (LHO has the A-J), so he leads the
A.”
“Aha,” I said. “Now I can unblock my K to endplay LHO.”
“Exactly, and that’s what I did. He then had to give me both a dummy entry and an extra trick. If he leads a club, I take the club finesse and pitch my two red-suit losers on the clubs; if he leads a second diamond, my 10 becomes a dummy entry and I can then pitch my losing heart on the
A.”
“That’s a really great hand. Why didn’t you report it to someone in San Antonio so that it could get published in the Daily Bulletin?” I asked.
Dick just shrugged his shoulders as he tilted his head slightly and raised his eyebrows.
The four hands:
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