Super star Juniors are springing up everywhere, living, breathing and playing bridge. Nicolai (The Kid) Heiberg-Evenstad (16) from Norway and Christian Lahrmann (21) from Denmark are both already professional bridge players and are crazy talented both in the bidding and the play.
One of the finest card players of the ‘new’ generation is England’s Ben Norton. Watch how he helped himself to a game swing against one of the stronger teams at the recent WBT event in Copenhagen (see diagram).
Ben and his partner, Stefano Tommasini, rapidly bid to their vulnerable game, although they missed out on the best spot of 3NT by North. West led the ♣K, which was allowed to hold with East contributing the ♣5. Not knowing if she should continue Clubs, West tanked for a moment and then selected the ♠8.
Ben decided that West’s pause at trick two was to decide between Spades or Diamonds, and that therefore the ◆A was likely to be offside.
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