lead ♥7

Dealer: East

Vuln: None

This contract seems to depend of the Spade finesse. But what is the hurry in taking the finesse before exploring other posibilites. Maybe the Diamond queen will come down in two rounds. Maybe the opponents will give away something when they have to discard on the clubs.

With all this in mind, play the Diamond Ace at trick 2 after winning the Heart King. No Queen appears

Now cash four rounds of Clubs with the clubs breaking 3:2. Play a Diamond over to the King and still no Queen appears. At the 11th hour now you can take the spade finesse and fortunately it works

Before you took the spade finesse you tried the other options before putting all your eggs in the finessing basket.

You made 2 Spade, 1 Heart 2 Diamonds and 4 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.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