BBO vugraph commentaries suck. The commentators usually tell why their methods are better than anything else. How the players (much better ones than the commentators) should have found the play that were obvious to them from 52 cards. Or simply trying to get witty instead of commenting. Well, in fact there are two commentators whose comments I like pretty much: Michael Rosenberg and Kit Woolsey. Yet they aren’t always in top form. Take this deal from the semifinal of the USBC:

Ralph Katz tried the queen on the club lead and ruffed when Steve Weinstein covered. He continued with a trump to the ace, a trump back and a third one. When spades behaved he claimed thirteen tricks. On a bad spade break he still might have made on a squeeze.
After the first trump the slam was virtually laydown. Katz should have ruffed two clubs high and enter dummy with the red kings. A textbook dummy reversal I would expect most advanced players find if presented on paper. Maybe Woolsey played a backgammon game in another window or simply fell into the commentators’ trap of seeing all 52 cards.
What surprised me more is that Katz who was hired into the world’s top team and won a Bermuda Bowl right away didn’t find it. I thought he earned his money by impeccable play. Usually not the right time to sleep when playing against one of the best pairs in the world in the semifinal of the trials.

You can see it card by card here: View