Sunday 16th  October   2011

Playing Match Points, Plan your defence after partner wins your Spade lead and fires the suit back -Can you punish the opposition for their diabolical bidding ?

On this hand it seems that declarer should have been in Game in Hearts.

With no outside entries to your wonderful Spades you must hold up the second Spade and hope partner has a third Spade to get to you once he is able to grab the lead.

 Once you have held up the Spades declarer will only be able to get 5 Clubs, 3 Diamonds and 1 spade. And you will get 90% of the Match Points because in Hearts declarer will make at least 10 tricks if not 11 if he guesses the trump position.

 You can also view  watch the following movie to see how the hand pans out. (You need bridgvu.exe programme  or BridgeBase programme on your machine already to view it ) and it is available free from   http://www.haroldschogger.com/videos.htm

 alternatively watch the film www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm