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trick by power in hearts and possibly a trick by position in the same suit.
Manage the hand. Win the lead in dummy and play a diamond to the 10.
When you regain the lead play a diamond from the North hand.
Play. If you are going to take the heart finesse at some stage you must
ensure that there is an entry to dummy so you can get to your hearts if the
finesse loses.

Hand 4
Í 9
West's choice of opening bid with 13 Ì 4 3 2
points and an unbalanced hand is to Ë Q J 5
open the longest suit and not their Ê Q J 10 8 4 2
strongest. Remember the phrase length Í A Q 8 7 Í K 10 6 5
Ì A K 8 Ì Q 6 5
before strength.
Ë 10 9 8 4 3 Ë A 6
Again East knows that his 13 points Ê 7 Ê A 6 5 3
are worth a game at least opposite Í J 4 3 2
partner's opening bid but should take his 6 Ì J 10 9 7
time and respond his lowest 4 card suit 13 13 Ë K 7 2
8 Ê K 9
and so chooses 1Í.
West East
With 4 cards support for spades and 1Ë 1Í
a minimum hand West should raise the 2Í 4Í
spades and now the correct game is All pass
found.
Experts might well delay and take an extra round of bidding here but
would get to the same contract.
The lead will probably be the ÊQ.
This is a trump contract and so we must keep C. A. L. M.

Count our top tricks by power. 3 spades, 3 hearts, 1 diamond and 1 club. 8
in total.
Add tricks from other sources. We could ruff 2 clubs in hand
Loser check. If we ruff 2 clubs we could lose a possible spade, 1 diamond
and 1 club. That is okay.
Manage the hand. Win the club lead and ruff a club. Play a heart to the
queen and ruff another club. Win the Ace and Queen of spades and get
the bad news. Play a diamond to the Ace and cash the winning trump and

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