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...Here, declarer led a low trump from dummy and took his A♠, before next playing to K♠....
...East took A♠, returned 2♠, and South won deceptively with K♠ in hand....
...To succeed wherever Q♠ and K♦ lie, West must be stripped of a safe way of getting off lead once he wins the first finesse....
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...BiddingDealer: SouthLove All West correctly led K♥....
...With West’s own three diamonds, this marks East with a singleton, and allows West to make a very rare play indeed: he leads dummy’s long suit. West’s trump control of K♠ makes this the correct play....
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...BiddingDealer: SouthGame All West led 10♦, identified by all as a singleton, and declarer won in hand and led a trump....
...Declarer took the lead to be a singleton, playing low from dummy and beating East’s 9♣ with A♣. He laid down K♠, noting East’s 10♠....
...Against 4H, which several players made, South might start with his singleton diamond, but he does have two chances....
...Playing for 5♥ to be a singleton is foolhardy since, if this is the layout, declarer would hold ♥K92 and two heart tricks might belong to East naturally....
...The lead is probably from KJ10xx(x), but declarer worried that East might hold a singleton or doubleton K♠, so she played low from dummy at trick 1....
...South drew the last trump and took the club finesse twice, claiming 11 tricks when K♣ did not fall on the third round. How did South know that West held a singleton K♦?...
...Knowing that West holds six hearts, and that 6♦ lead is surely a singleton, allows declarer to keep a count on West’s hand. Declarer covered the lead with dummy’s J♦, East contributed K♦, and South A♦....
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...With West likely to hold both K♠ and K♦, the contract seemed safe. East dropped Q♣, and West switched to 10♥. Declarer decided that East’s Q♣ showed J♣, and 10♥ was surely a singleton....
...With a singleton in dummy — even in a small slam — it is often wrong to rise with an ace. South smirked to himself....
...If West has a singleton and trumps K♥, the game is lost — unless declarer is alert to that possibility....
...So, declarer played to A♥, hoping to drop East’s now singleton K♥. If West had — like most — overcalled 1S, would it have changed South’s thinking? At the table, it did....
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