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You are: S
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Board # 4 Dealer: Vuln:
The Maximum Chance
By David Bird
 You can give yourself the maximum chance on most of the deals that you play, you will end up as a winner. On many hands the second-best play will work, because a suit breaks favorably.Â
Sometimes, as on this deal, you need to play the contract accurately to succeed against a less friendly lie of the cards.Â
We bid to 4♠after West has made a cheeky non-vulnerable overcall of 2♦ and West leads the ♣K. We win with the ♣A and must look for the best play in the trump suit, hoping to restrict our losses there to just one trick.
We should lead towards the â™ Q J, hoping that East holds the â™ K. What is more, we must not cash the â™ A first. If East happens to hold four trumps including the â™ K, we’d need to lead trumps a second time towards our hand.Â
We lead to the â™ Q and this wins the trick. We return to the â™ A, West showing out, and are then in dummy to lead towards the â™ J. We escape for one trump loser and make the contract.
Both the inferior plays (cashing the â™ A on the first round, or crossing to South hand to lead the â™ Q) would result in defeat when the cards lie as in the actual layout. When trumps break 3-2 any play will succeed. (If West held four trumps including the King, no play would succeed).  Â
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