Through the Pack at Glenfield

The Ace of Spades

Nothing gives a player greater satisfaction than using me to fell a singleton king. Unless, of course, it is partner’s singleton king. Such a fate befell North on this deal from the match between Glenfield A and Leicester Bridge Centre B on 4^th December 2002
	North ª A84 © Q54 ¨ A54 § 9862	Dealer North Love All	East west bid to the giddy heights of four spades. Trumps were led from the west hand. North, perhaps, had read the original “Right Through the Pack” in which a player failed to take a trick with the ace of trumps and, unaware that the rules had been changed rendering such a fate impossible, played me at the first opportunity. Soon after my younger brother crashed onto the same trick and the impossible game had made for the Bridge Centre. A Glenfield pair also made ten tricks. East had opened one no trump, west bid two clubs (Stayman) and east announced possession of at least four spades with a bid of two spades. West raised. South led the ten of diamonds, declarer played low from dummy and north ducked, a finesse against partner, allowing a surprised east to win the trick with the jack of diamonds. Sadly for Glenfield it wasn’t enough to cancel the other score for west had just raised to three spades and east had passed. That seems a reasonable auction to me but the other two tables both reached four spades. This time the defence prevailed.
West ª JT95 © T ¨ Q762 § AK53		East ª Q7632 © AK7 ¨ J3 § Q74
	South ª K © J98632 ¨ KT98 § JT

The next card is the King of Spades.

The previous card was the Two of Clubs.

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6 Through the Pack