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Today Suzie and I flew to Brisbane with our tournament directors, Matthew McManus and Ed Barnes for the Tangalooma Wild Dolphin Resort Bridge Holiday on Moreton Island. From the airport we took a maxi-cab with Shirley Brettle and Joyce Butler to the Pinkenba wharf where we boarded the Tangalooma flyer for the 75 minutes boat trip to the resort.

During the afternoon we set up the bridge room for the first session tonight, the Welcome Pairs. The winners were Kaye Hart – Jeff Carberry, North-South, and Margaret Dunn - Philippa Webber, East-West.

How would you play 4 as South on the 4 lead (from the Welcome Pairs):

West	North	East	South
---	Pass	Pass	1NT
Pass	2 (1)	Pass	2
Pass	4	All pass

(1) Transfer to spades
Lead: 4

Make your decision before reading further.

Your best move is to take the A, cross to the A and lead the Q. If west covers, you ruff. When West plays low, you throw the 5 from dummy. Loser on loser. Later you can pitch two hearts on the other diamond winners and make ten or eleven tricks, depending how you pick the spades. This was the full deal:

Seven pairs played in 4 , making 11 tricks three times and 10 tricks four times. Two pairs played in spade part-scores, one was in 2 and one in 1NT.