[benellis58]

6NT was always cold. Even if EW took the spade ace, we would still have a spade stopper, and we would take all 12 remaining tricks.

But this was a matchpoint game, and if EW did NOT take their spade ace at trick one, I could claim all 13 tricks, and the overtrick would probably give us a better score than "only" taking 12.

Well, I did take all 13 tricks, and I did get a good score.

Not lucky for EW, right? West, the player on lead, didn't guess the best lead of a spade, right? His partner East went to bed with his spade ace when I claimed all 13 tricks, right?

Well, uh, NO - NOT right, because West DID find a spade lead!

So the M.O.R.O.N. in the East stupidly DUCKED his spade ace at trick one, right?

Well, uh, no. Not right again. There WAS indeed a M.O.R.O.N. at the table, but it wasn't East. WEST had led...the TEN OF SPADES (!) from THIS hand: A10952, J3, 754, 864!

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