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School of Bridge

Quiz10 Managing Trumps Question 4

Here is the last of four hands, you are declarer in 4♠ and must decide whether or not to draw trumps….
simply say “yes we draw trumps”
or “no we do something else first”

The lead is the J♥

  • ♠Q10943
  • ♥A43
  • ♦4
  • ♣AJ87
  • ♠KJ65
  • ♥762
  • ♦AK98
  • ♣Q10

The Answer

Answer - No we need to do something else first

We have one spade loser, two heart losers and a possible loser in clubs. So before touching trumps we must reduce our heart holding by cashing the ♦A & ♦K and throwing a heart on the second diamond. Now we can take out trumps.