Playing Match Point Pairs where every over trick can be vital to a good score the opponnets lead ♣9 won by East who switches to ♥k and another plan your play in 4♠

Dealer: East  Love All

The main aspect of this hand is COUNTING YOUR WINNERS. After the lead, you now have 3 established 3clubs in the dummy plus 4 trumps plus 2 Diamonds and 1 Heart ruff (after ruffing the third trick- This brings the total to 10) So where can you get any overtricks. You can get an overtrick if you trump another Heart in dummy while you still have trumps in dummy. With this in mind, go over to dummy with a club in order to play a third Heart to trump. Now its a matter of drawing trumps. However before leaving your hand to get to dummy to draw that last trump you must cash the Ace King of diamonds first as it is going to be your last chance to cash those winners. Trump a Diamond to get to dummy and draw the last trump. You made, 4 trumps, 2 Heart ruffs, 2 Diamonds and 3 clubs for a very good Match Point score.

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