Dealer North. None Vul.

                                    ♠          6 5 3

                                    ♥          A 8 4

                                    ♦          Q J 8 6 3

                                    ♣          K 6

            ♠          —                                             ♠          K Q 7 4

            ♥          K Q 10 6 2                                ♥          9 7 5 3

            ♦          K 10 5 4                                    ♦          7 2

            ♣          Q 10 7 3                                   ♣          J 9 2

                                    ♠          A J 10 9 8 2

                                    ♥          J

                                    ♦          A 9

                                    ♣          A 8 5 4

This hand comes from the Red Sea bridge festival 2019 in Israel and I managed to screw it up. Like all my students I wanted to ruff .

If I could ruff Spades twice on table I could see my way to 10 tricks but this thinking was not at all good.

All I had to do was practice what I preach and set up the second suit after drawing trumps.

After winning the first trick in dummy I should take the safety play and run the spade to the Jack and when East plays low it holds.

Now after seeing the 4:0 break  I I need to leave the trumps alone and get on with the Diamonds.

I  play Ace and another Diamond and West pops up with the King. He attempts to cash the top Heart but I can trump.

I now head over to the Club King and play a top Diamond which East trumps and I can now overtrump. I can now cash a top Spade leaving West with the winner and I still have a trump in dummy to take a force in clubs should the opposition play another club.

I now play Ace and another club ruffing in dummy.

Now in dummy I and play a winning Diamond and East can trump in when he likes but I have made 11 tricks instead of going one off.

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 )

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