The EBU’s Premier League is upon us again, the pain of relegation ever-present as my team battles it out in the second division to try to finish in the top two and earn promotion. After two of the three rather endless weekends (a triple round-robin if you please) we are lying well and… let’s hope it doesn’t go pear-shaped again.
This hand caused the most discussion, played by my teammate Nick Sandqvist.
Our opposition cleverly pushed us to slam whilst many tables were allowed to play in game. Nick ruffed the Heart lead and saw that the problem was to avoid losing two Diamond tricks. Spades offered a reasonable shot at throwing West in, so after eliminating Hearts he tried three rounds of Spades. If West produced an honour he could discard a Diamond from dummy and hope West is endplayed, or, if he thought West had another Spade he could ruff, come back to hand and throw him in with the next one instead.
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