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diamonds on our hearts we can ruff 2 diamonds in the short hand.
Loser check. 2 diamonds and 2 clubs possibly.
Manage. We go game. Win the lead and play the ËA. Now win the hearts
throwing diamonds, trump a diamond, trump finesse. Win the lead back
and ruff a diamond. Draw trumps.
Notice that if we lead clubs we have no tricks. If they lead clubs we
get a trick. This is called a “frozen suit”. This is because the side that
leads it give up a trick.

Hand 8

Keep C. A. L. M. as it looks like
Í 4 3
spades should be trumps. Ì Q 9 6
Ë A 8 3 2
Counting top tricks by power: 5 spades, Ê J 10 9 3
Í K Q 10 8 2 Í A J 6 5
1 heart and a club. 7 in all.
Ì A J 7 5 Ì 8
Adding tricks from other sources: None Ë Q J 7 Ë 10 6 5 4
at first sight except a very slow diamond Ê 7 Ê A 6 5 2
or 2! Ah, what happens if we use our Í 9 7
trumps in both hands to trump. 7 Ì K 10 4 3 2
13 9 Ë K 9
Loser check. 2 or 3 diamonds
11 Ê K Q 8 4
Manage. Go game. Win the lead, cash
the ÌA and then trump all of the hearts in dummy and all of the clubs in
hand. Making 2 red Aces, 6 trumps by ruffing the 2 extra trumps we have
in the West hand. 10 tricks by a cross ruff.

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