Q85 Contract: West’s Lead: ♠Jack. 5. K765 6NT AQ72 Take the Club finesse? 54 AQ Contract: West’s Lead: ♠3 4. T762 4 Hearts AK84 Make an easy overtrick by finessing the on the opening ♠Q 763 lead? Absolutely not! East wins and leads her How many ♣Jack. 86 are you down? And on a sure 10 trick contract! AKQ93 QJ3 Shame! K42 A Dangerous Opponent* situation: East cannot be let in! Is there any other way? Of course there is. AK4 A98 Take 2 Spades and 4 Diamond tricks, watching discards KJ65 closely. Then Duck* a Heart. Win any return and play ♥A AKJ and If Hearts break 3 -3 or someone discarded their 4th ♥K. Heart, there goes your J loser. If not, then Finesse* it. 2 chances are … K Contract: West’s Lead: ♦Q 6. 876532 4 Spades There’s finesses available in both Hearts and Clubs. Take ♦964 which one . . . or both? ♣QJT AQJT93 Neither. Guarantee it easily by NOT collecting trump before playing the and the setting up a Club ♥AQ ♣Ace ♣4, winner in dummy for your Heart loser. Easy if you defer ♦A72 trump collection, getting to dummy with the K. Collect ♣A4 trump first and fail. 100% is better than any other odds. Taking a Finesse After every effort to avoid taking a Finesse(s)*, sometimes there is simply no other play, so you have to take it or them. Doing them in the correct order is the primary skill to develop.
4. AQ T762 AK84 763 Contract: 4 Hearts West’s Lead: ♠3 Make an easy overtrick by finessing the ♠Q on the opening lead? Absolutely not! East wins and leads her ♣Jack. How many are you down? And on a sure 10 trick contract! Shame! A Dangerous Opponent* situation: East cannot be let in! 86 AKQ93 QJ3 K42 5. Q85 K765 AQ72 54 Contract: 6NT West’s Lead: ♠Jack. Take the Club finesse? Is there any other way? Of course there is. Take 2 Spades and 4 Diamond tricks, watching discards closely. Then Duck* a Heart. Win any return and play ♥A and ♥K. If Hearts break 3 -3 or someone discarded their 4th Heart, there goes your J loser. If not, then Finesse* it. 2 chances are … AK4 A98 KJ65 AKJ 6. K 876532 ♦964 ♣QJT Contract: 4 Spades West’s Lead: ♦Q There’s finesses available in both Hearts and Clubs. Take which one . . . or both? Neither. Guarantee it easily by NOT collecting trump before playing the ♣Ace and the ♣4, setting up a Club winner in dummy for your Heart loser. Easy if you defer trump collection, getting to dummy with the K. Collect trump first and fail. 100% is better than any other odds. AQJT93 ♥AQ ♦A72 ♣A4 Taking a Finesse After every effort to avoid taking a Finesse(s)*, sometimes there is simply no other play, so you have to take it or them. Doing them in the correct order is the primary skill to develop.
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