Source: 9 – 24 June 2006; 12th WORLD BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS
On this deal from the fourth qualifying session of the Open Pairs, when Paul Hackett invited game, England’s Tony Waterlow accepted the invitation – he could have held a flat 11-count
with only four spades – after which Hackett drove to the small slam. There was some work to do in the play, however.
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West led the king of diamonds, ruffed in dummy, and Waterlow played ace and king of hearts, throwing a club from hand, then ruffed a heart, ruffed a diamond, came back to the ace of clubs, and ruffed the last diamond. He continued by ruffing a heart, crossing to the ace of spades, and ruffing the last heart.
Having reduced his trump holding to king-jack doubleton,Waterlow exited with the club loser and the defence had to lead into the trump tenace at trick twelve to assure the slam.
Not surprisingly, bidding and making 6
![Spade Suit](http://youth.worldbridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/s.gif)
was worth a lot of matchpoints to Hackett and Waterlow.