Hand of the week

Hand of the week, week commencing, Sunday 2nd October 2022

Plan your play in 4♠ after ♦Jack has been led

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Dealer: South Vuln: E/W

Dealer: South

Vuln: All

♠	A J 4 3
♥	K 10 9 4 2
♦	7 6 3
♣	Q

♠	7 2
♥	Q 8
♦	J 10 8 5
♣	A J 10 7 3

	N
W		E
W		E
	S

♠	10 9 6
♥	J 7 5
♦	A K 9 4 2
♣	6 5

♠	K Q 8 5
♥	A 6 3
♦	Q
♣	K 9 8 4 2

W	N	E	S
			1♣
Pass	1♥	Pass	1♠
Pass	3♠	Pass	4♠
End

When this hand was played against me, declarer did not count his winners and losers and consequently went one down.

Initially, you have 4 Spade winners and 2 Heart winners. You have hopefully one loser only in each suit outside the trump suit.

Therefore you need to generate generate 4 more tricks. The Heart suit seems to be your best bet for extra tricks and you will need to trump Diamonds twice or set up a club trick.

With all this in mind trump the second trick and play two top Hearts ending in dummy and ruff a second Diamond. Now draw two rounds of trumps pleased to see the expected 3:2 break. Now exit with a Heart and apart from the club, the remaiing cards in dummy are high making sure you draw the last trump when you get to dummy. You made 4 trumps from dummy, 4 Hearts and two Diamond ruff in your hand losing just 1 Heart, 1 Diamond and 1 Club.

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