West leads the 6♦️. You play the 10♦️ from dummy and East plays the 7♦️. You can now count twelve top tricks—six ♣️s, three ♦️s, two ♥️s, and one ♠️. What is your play for the thirteenth trick?
Getting the Last Trick
West leads the 6♦️. You play the 10♦️ from dummy and East plays the 7♦️. You can now count twelve top tricks—six ♣️s, three ♦️s, two ♥️s, and one ♠️. What is your play for the thirteenth trick?
The only possibility is a pseudo squeeze between Hs & Ss. Cash the A & K of Hs, run all the minor winners, discarding the last H in the dummy unless the Q, J & 10 have all been discarded. Then play the spade A & J and hope all the spades have been discarded.
On your play dummy must discard before East so East is not squeezed. Hint: try V… C…
Run all of the clubs, diamonds, ace of spades forcing O’s to hold a diamond for fear S hold 4, they must hold the KQ of Spades and if they are split then cannot protect the H. I am down to the Ax x on the board and Kx in my hand possibly making the last trick a small heart.
When you run diamonds the O’s get a count on the diamonds. The diamonds do not have a threat card. Hint: When you get down to three cards what is the third card in your hand?