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Plan your play in 6♣ after the ♦6 is led.

Dealer: East Both Vul

♠	9 6
♥	A K Q 8 6
♦	3
♣	A J 9 5 3

♠	K 10 8 4
♥	J 7 2
♦	Q 10 7 6
♣	10 8

	N
W		E
W		E
	S

♠	A J 3
♥	10 9 5 4 3
♦	K 9 5 2
♣	2

♠	Q 7 5 2
♥	-
♦	A J 8 4
♣	K Q 7 6 4

W	N	E	S
		Pass	1♣
Pass	1♥	Pass	1♠
Pass	3♣	Pass	5♣
Pass	6♣	Pass	Pass
Pass

Having escaped a spade lead, can you now make 12 tricks?

After winning East's King at trick 1 play a trump pleased to see everybody following and then play a trump to dummy's Jack drawing the last trump.

Quickly play 3 top Diamond throwing 3 Hearts from hand, before conceding 1 Heart.

Now you are in a situation of a TRUE CROSS RUFF where you can trump 3 Diamonds in dummy and ruff 2 Hearts and a Spade im hand.

I say "True cross ruff" because so many people band the term around when it is not a cross ruff and one is merely ruffing soothing in the short hand.

(NB the Bidding of this hand was also bizarre with North only rebidding 3♣ which could have been passed out and then North suddenly catching up with a bid of 6♣)

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