A Gift!
In France, a player who constantly hands out gifts to his opponents is called a Santa Claus (Père Noël). On defense, such a player will often allow a contract to make when it should have gone down. Would you do better than our Santa Claus against this 3NT?
The right signal
The bidding(Dealer South. E/W Vul.):
The start of the play
West leads the 6 of Spades to dummy’s 7, East’s Jack, and declarer’s Queen. Declarer then plays the 2 of Diamonds to dummy’s King, East following with his singleton 8. Dummy now calls for the 5 of Diamonds…
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