How to lose a loser:
The bidding is straightforward, tinged with a touch of optimism – just as you would do – of course !
On the ♦Q lead, how would you make this hand? East plays the KD.
East’s play of the KD is interesting.
Surely it can mean only one thing. That E has just a doubleton in diamonds and W has (probably) the DJ & D10.
So we could throw W in with a diamond and hopefully get a favourable return.
But we have to eliminate West’s other spare cards.
So we draw trumps and cash the AK of spades, discarding a diamond from hand.
Now we cash the AK of hearts and lead a diamond.
Yippee. W has only got diamonds left and must give a ruff & discard.
