Dealer: South Vuln: N/S

You take stock and without doing any work at all you have 6 winners -1 Spade, 1 Heart, 2 Diamonds and 2 clubs.

The longest suit between the two hands is Clubs so you will need to establish the clubs. If the suit breaks 2:2 or............you will get 3 more tricks more bringing your total to the desired contract.

You also have the luxury of taking the Spade finesse for a possible overtrick.

When playing the clubs it is a good idea to keep that A10 tenace in tact.

After winning the first trick in hand (we may need the Diamond Ace on the table as possible entry later).

We play Club King and see the appearance of the Jack from West. Is the suit breaking 2:2 or does East have the Queen now? The theory of restricted choice says that an adjacent honour is now twice as likely to be in the other defender's hand. Using this guideline we now play a club from dummy and when East plays low we ty the Ten delighted to win the trick. We cash 2 more club winners keeping the lead in dummy in order to now finesse the Spade. Play the Spade Queen and let it run and you win this trick.

You now make your contract with an overtrick from 2 Spades, 1Heart, 2 Diamonds and 5 clubs- good job you knew about restricted choice.