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the Queen and 10 will win. That is 7 and we declare "part score".
Again we do the work early and then relax. Win the opening lead and
play ÊA and a club to the Jack. When you regain the lead win your 7
tricks, 2 spades, 1 heart, 1 diamond and 3 clubs.

Note that another way to play the clubs here is to hope for a trick by
position and lead the ÊJ from hand and finesse.

Hand 3
North/South have 27 points and South,
the declarer, thinks that this is probably a Í J 9 2
game hand, but remember P. L. P. Ì A J 9 2
Ë A 10 6
We start with 6 quick tricks by power, 2
Ê 10 4 2
hearts, 3 diamonds and 1 club.
Í 7 6 4 Í A 8 3
We can see 3 slow tricks by power in Ì 8 6 5 Ì Q 10 9
spades once the ace has gone. Ë 9 8 4 Ë J 7 5 2
That is nine in all so we need look no Ê K Q J 7 Ê 8 6 5
Í K Q 10 5
further and "go game".
10 Ì K 7 4
6 7 Ë K Q 4
As soon as we win the lead we will play a 17 Ê A 9 3
spade (to the) Jack and keep playing the suit
until either the Ace is gone or we have 3 tricks. When we regain the lead
we will have 9 tricks.
Do not be afraid of losing the lead early so long as you can be sure of
getting it back quickly.

Hand 4
This time we only have marginally more than the opponents and so
part score looks right but we should just check.
Counting our quick tricks by power. We have 3 spades and 1
diamond.
Looking for slow tricks by power we have 3 clubs.
In hearts we might have a slow trick by power too but it is so slow we
should ignore it especially as we have 7 tricks without it.
Okay we declare "part score" and win the opening lead and play on
the club suit by leading towards the King. 7 tricks made by attending to

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