Dealer North. Love All.

                                    ♠          9 6

                                    ♥          A K J 7

                                    ♦          9 7 6 5

                                    ♣         J 8 5

            ♠          Q 10 8                                    ♠          K J 5

            ♥          9 5 3                                       ♥          Q 6 4 2

            ♦          J 10 2                                     ♦          4 3

            ♣         A Q 10 2                                ♣         K 9 6 3

                                    ♠          A 7 4 3 2

                                    ♥          10 8

                                    ♦          A K Q 8

                                    ♣         7 4

As with the majority of hands, this should be a tale of two halves. You  need to set up the Spades and you also need to draw trumps.

After winning the first trick, play top spade and another spade. West wins and plays a second Heart which you win.

You now play off  two top trumps leaving two trumps on the table lest the spades break 4:2 . Now play a Spade ruffing it on the table. The spades break kindly and you can now draw the last trump.

You eventually make 1 Spade, 1 Spade ruffed, 2 established Spades, 2 Hearts and 4 trumps for a fairly 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