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our best chance to force the declarer to lose trump control.
3. A spade. To stop declarer ruffing in the short hand.

We would probably choose a heart.
In trumps we keep C. A. L. M.

Count your top tricks by power. 2 spades, 2 hearts, 1 club. Total 5
Add tricks from other sources. The hand is unfortunate in that we have 4
top hearts and only 2 tricks. We have a slow trick by power in clubs but if
West holds the King we can make 2 extra tricks by position so long as we
lead from South.
Loser check. Possibly 2 spades, 3 diamonds and a possible club. We must
NOT draw trumps!.
Manage the hand. A club lead makes it easy but with a heart lead win in
dummy and play a club. When we have our club tricks we must just play
on diamonds. 8 tricks.

Hand 7
Í Q 6
Again an easy auction. When West Ì 10 3 2
Ë K 9 8 5
opens 1NT, East must announce “12-14".
Ê J 10 7 5
Now East knows that their side hold at least Í K 4 2 Í A 8 5 3
27 points and simply bids the game. Ì 8 7 6 Ì A 4
Probable lead Ê5. Ë 7 6 2 Ë A Q J 10
In notrump we make C. A. M. P. Ê A K Q 3 Ê 9 8 2
Í J 10 8 7
6 Ì K Q J 9 5
Count your top tricks by power. 2 spades, 1 12 15 Ë 4 3
heart, 1 diamond and 3 clubs. Total 7. 7 Ê 6 4
Add tricks from other sources. We have 2 West East
slow tricks by power in diamonds and a 1NT 3NT
All pass
tricks by position if the ËK is in the North
hand. We have a possible trick by length in clubs if both opponents have
3.
Manage the hand. On a club lead we notice that playing the 8 from
dummy might well win so we should try. So, we win and take the diamond
finesse by playing the Ë2 to the 10. When this holds we return to the West

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