Both finesses worked

There is a regional bridge tournament being held this week in Tunica MS at Sam's Town Casino.

A big sign welcomes players to Sam's Town.


You can click to enlarge this photo of the front of Sam's Town.

I played in the Flighted Open Pairs Thursday and was declarer in 2♦ on board #31 in the evening (hands rotated):

                  ♠ K 10 6 3
                  ♥ A Q 8
                  ♦ A K 10 6
                  ♣ J 5                         
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                  ♠ J 7
                  ♥ 9 7 5 3
                  ♦ 9 8 7 4
                  ♣ A 9 8

   West   North   East   South
   1♣     Dbl     1♥    Pass
   1NT    Dbl     Pass   2♦
   All Pass

West led the ♥K. "Let me think about this, okay play the ace!" I joked and everybody laughed. I cashed the ♦A. I didn't have a lot of entries to my hand, so I tried the effect of leading a low spade from the dummy. My RHO played low and I put in the ♠J which won the trick! Now, I knew where the spades were. My RHO obviously had the queen, and my LHO had the ace. I led another spade and when LHO ducked, I played the ♠K, which held.

Now I had control. I drew another round of trump, and then ruffed two spades (using the ♥Q as an entry back to dummy). In the end, the opponents took one club, one heart and one trump trick, and I made four for plus 130 and a 9 on a 12 top.
I guess you could say that I finessed my RHO for the ♠Q and that won; next, I finessed my LHO for the ♠A and that won too. Both finesses won, as it were.

Here's the complete deal:

                  ♠ K 10 6 3
                  ♥ A Q 8
                  ♦ A K 10 6
                  ♣ J 5
♠ A 9 8 2                         ♠ Q 5 4
♥ K J                             ♥ 10 6 4 2
♦ J 5 2                           ♦ Q 3
♣ Q 7 6 3                         ♣ K 10 4 2
                  ♠ J 7
                  ♥ 9 7 5 3
                  ♦ 9 8 7 4
                  ♣ A 9 8

Sam's Town is nicely landscaped.


Sam's Town looks different at night.