Vitruvian Man

Dear Bridge Players,

Todays I feature another Italian artist at work. Leonardo Cima (nickname 100dog) played this hand on BBO on the 28the Sep 08. He was playing on the Stars team Vs Jimmy Caynes team.

The Hand:

Dealer S Vul – Scoring Imp Lead ♦8	♠ KJ87 ♥ T943 ♦ 86 ♣ T76
♠ 6543 ♥ 5 ♦ J32 ♣ 98542		♠ AQ9 ♥ AK762 ♦ K ♣ AKQJ
	♠ T2 ♥ QJ8 ♦ AQT9754 ♣ 3

The Bidding:

The Play:
North lead the D8 and South (Jimmy Cayne) won the Ace and switched to his singleton club and
all eyes were on on Leonardo. He won the club perforce in dummy and cashed the HA and ruffed a H and finessed with the trump queen.

At this point Leonardo realised that the contract was makable. South has 7 diamonds and most likely to have a singleton club. If he holds two trumps, Leanardo was cold for the contract.
Accordingly, he cashed the ace of trumps, cashed the HK and two more top clubs, ruffed a h and scored a diamond ruff.

The crowd went wild.

Have a good game,
Rueful