Dealing With Bridge By Oswald Jacoby
West opens with the ten of clubs and Larceny Lou wins the first trick with the South hand. West contends a simple ace of spades would have defeated the contract, while Lou feigns meekness to hide foreseen clever defense in this illustrated bridge vignette.
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Oswald Jacoby
West
Larceny Lou
Lou
Deceptive play secures contract in tricky bridge hand
In a bridge problem, Lou pretends to lack a spade entry by drawing three trumps before leading a singleton spade. West, assuming Lou has only one spade, ducks the first spade, allowing Lou to win with dummy's king of spades and concede diamonds. West misreads Lou's hand, thinking South holds two spades.
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Lou
West
Dummy
Declarer
South
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