Janet de Botton

Bridge | 8 December 2016

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What happened to the Rishi Sunak I knew at school?

Declarer, knowing there was a catch to the hand, thought he recognised the situation — that the only way to bring in the Clubs was to play East for the singleton Ace.

After some deep thought, he therefore led the ♣8 from hand and asked for the ♣2 from dummy. We will never know if East knew what he was doing when he won this trick with the Ace, if he misheard or had just had too much champagne.

What we do know is that South was so jubilant his reading of the situation had been accurate that he couldn’t hold back a loud ‘Yay’ and a fist-pump. He won East’s Spade exit and, with an air of total invincibility, played another Club to dummy’s 10…

Happy birthday, Simon, and Merry Christmas everyone.

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