That must be because he is entirely confident about your card-playing skills...

Your partner (North) was exuberant in the bidding, having been bitten by the slam bug, but the final contract is quite sound. How should you play the hand after the ♥J lead is covered by the ♥Q and East's ♥K?

You can see a Heart shortage in the dummy and might, therefore, be tempted to ruff a Heart at trick two. Is that the right play or should you be drawing trumps (and denuding dummy of Spades?

If you pause to plan the play (Count-Plan-Execute; the old mantra) you should see that you have five Spade tricks (assuming trumps aren’t 5-0) one Heart, one Diamond and five Clubs. 5+1+1+5 makes twelve (or the arithmetic did when we were at school!) so that means an extra trick via a Heart ruff is unnecessary. You don't need to trump your losers, you can dump them

In fact, on this layout, ruffing a Heart at trick two is fatal. The 4-1 trump split means that East would make a trump trick (because you are forced to ruff with a Spade honor) and the deal would get very difficult and messy.

You should go for the simple line: Take the ♥A, play off the ♠K Q J (noting the 4-1 break) cross to hand either with the ♣A or by playing the ♦A and a Diamond ruff (the second of these is marginally better), cash the ♠A to remove East’s last trump and cash five Club tricks. The defenders are welcome to the last trick in Diamonds.

Your Heart losers, you will note, have been dumped on the Clubs.

How to Play:

There is a Chinese saying:
'An image is worth 1000 words!'

You may want to take the
Online Player Guided Tour

1 - Bidding: Click the 'Play' button in the middle of the page to display the bidding box.

When you are ready, click the 'Start Bidding' button.

When a bid is alerted, it is shown on a yellow background. You can then click that bid to display the related alert.

When there is a comment or a question about your own bid, you can read it on the bidding box comments pane, and then, click the 'Ok' button to continue bidding.

Click 'Close Bidding Box' to proceed to playing the hand.

2 - Playing: The lead is automatic if you are declarer, otherwise you'll see the 'It's your lead' warning in the center pane.

You will play your cards and dummy's as if you were at a live table.

2.1 -Touching cards are considered equivalent! e.g. if you have 876 and you play the 7 while Vu-Bridge expects you to play the 6, then the 7 will blink and the 6 will be played.

2.2 -Sometimes there will be a comment or question during the play.
You should read it and click the 'Click to continue' button at the top of the comment text.

If its a question, there will be a 'Show Answer' button to click at the bottom of the comment panel.

2.3 - When a comment bears a 'Finish flag' button, you can click it to reveal hidden hands and continue playing. We use this to explain technical coups like end-plays, squeezes etc.

2.4 - You can review the last trick by clicking on the last won or lost trick (back of card) at the bottom of the screen. The last trick will show during 3 seconds and then play will continue.

2.5 - You can click the 'Undo last trick' button at the left of the screen in order to redo one or several tricks and review the attached comments.
You can review the auction by clicking the 'Auction' tab in the same area.
3 - Moving the comment panel:

When the mouse hovers the dark green background of the bidding box or the comment panel, you'll see a crosshair cursor and you can drag and move it around the page.

The left and right arrows on the top left corner of the comment panel allows you to increase or reduce the width for better readability.

4 - When a hand is finished, you can click the 'Board List' at the top of the comment panel, and play other hands From the same Series.

To play other Series, visit the Vu-Bridge's home page and click the 'Bridge Hands' button.