Hand of the week

♠	A J 3 2
♥	Q J 7 5 4 2
♦	9
♣	J 4

♠	7 6
♥	K
♦	A J 8 7 2
♣	Q 10 8 7 2

	N
W		E
W		E
	S

♠	Q 10 9
♥	A 10 9
♦	Q 5 4
♣	9 6 5 3

♠	K 8 5 4
♥	8 6 3
♦	K 10 6 3
♣	A K

W	N	E	S
		Pass	1NT
Pass	2♣	Pass	2♠
Pass	3♠	End

When the winners count is low then its a good idea to count losers (as well/instead).

Here we only have 4 winners, two top spades and two top Clubs.

However the horizon look much better on the losers front- hopefully no more than 1 trump 2 Hearts and 1 Diamond.

With this in mind, you win the first two tricks and then draw two rounds of trumps before returning to your hand with a top Club (to eliminate Clubs from both hands). Now youwill need to get that lovely long heart suit in dummy working for you and when you play a low heart from hand West produces the King. (looks like a singleton or start of AK).

West cashes a Diamond followed by another Diamond which you can win with your now promoted King. Its now a matter of forcing out the other top Heart. East wins and cashes his Spade Queen but you can now take care of the rest with 3 winning Hearts and a trump left.

You made 3 Spades, 3 Hearts 1 Diamond and 2 clubs

You can also play out the following hand to see how the hand pans out. (You need bridgvu.exe programme and it is available free from http://www.haroldschogger.com/movies.html )

alternatively watch the film of the hand being played out by going to www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm

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