Dealer South Both VUL.

                             ♠        A 8 5 2

                             ♥       K 7

                             ♦        Q 10 8 3 2

                             ♣       8 2

          ♠        K Q 7 6 3                       ♠        J 10 4

          ♥       9 4                                    ♥       6 5 3

          ♦        A 9 6                              ♦        K 5 4

          ♣       A 9 3                              ♣       10 7 6 4

                             ♠        9

                             ♥       A Q J 10 8 2

                             ♦        J 7

                             ♣       K Q J 5

Counting your tricks is so important on this week’s hand..

Initially you have just 1 Spade and 6 trump tricks and NEED THREE MORE

 If you are careless and think the clubs will produce the extra three tricks THINK AGAIN.

You will need the King to force out their Club Ace so there will be only two club tricks to establish. So where will the 10^th trick  come from?

In order to get th 10^th trick you will have to ruff a club in dummy the short hand before drawing trumps.

After winning the first trick immediately play Club King which forces out their Ace. They can now play  trump but that will still leave you with one trump in dummy.

You play a club to the Queen and now trump with dummy’s lone ©K

And now that you have generated the 10^th trick your priority will be to get back to hand by trumping a Spade and drawing the remaining trumps.

You will eventually make 6 trumps from the long hand, 1 Spade, 2 established clubs and 1 club ruffed in dummy.

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.videoes.html or BridgeBase programme on your machine already to view it )

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