cr|264|cb|2255|cg|2255|cr|1255|cb|164|cg|1255|cr|364|cb|364|cg|3255|cr|4255|cb|464|cg|464|cr|5255|cb|5255|cg|5255|bg|5|bt||mn|Finessing KQ108 compiled by Harold Schogger|cb|xy|nt|













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            (5th blackened icon along bottom line)|pg||st||md|S432,,SKQt8,,|cr||nt|You are in charge of North and South  with KQ10 in one hand and low ones in the other and you are trying to make 2 or more tricks|pg||npcSaqS5mdmdpgmdpgnt|In order to finesse we need to be in the South hand and we start with the @S2 with West following low|md|S432HA,SA76H3,SKQt8H4,SJ95H2|sk|ns|pc|s2|pc|s6|pg||nt|we try dummy's King ( NOT THE 10) and when East plays low we win the trick|pc|sk|pc|s5|pg||nt|we now have to re-enter dummy with the @HA (our entry)|pc|h4|pc|h2|pc|ha|pc|h3|pg||nt|we will now finesse through West again having come to the conclusion that West is more likely to have the @SA than East who could only contribute low Spade when Spades were first played.|pc|s3|pg||nt|west follows low and we put in dummy's Queen relieved to win the trick|pc|s7|pc|sq|pc|s9|pg||nt|It's now a matter of playing off one of the remaining cards and hoping the suit breaks 33, if we want to get 3 out of four tricks. However we have achieved out original aim of winning at least two tricks|pg||nt|now let us see how the cards were originally divided with the Ace on the left|sk||md|S432HA,SA76H3,SKQt8H4,SJ95H2|at| 
                 
             {You can see that the Ace is with West and that he needs to be fineesed twice}|pg||nt|now let us see what happens if the Jack is on the left with West and the Ace is on the right with East|md|S432HA,SJ76H3,SKQt8H4,SA95H2|sk|ns|pg||nt|we start the same way and lead low one from South|pn||pc|s2|pc|s7|pc|sk|bo||pg||nt|

             and East follows with the Ace  (UGH)|pc|sa|pg||nt|some time later we regain the lead and play a low Spade from South with West following low|wt|s|pc|s3|pc|s6|at|

   {^*BDecision Time^*N}|pg||nt|

    if we are going to have any chance of an extra trick now we must try dummy's @S10 and hope that the outstanding @SJ was with West who has already played

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            East follows low and we have successfully finessed  West's Jack|pg||nt|      Now let us look at the original layout of all the cards|md|S432HA,SJ76H3,SKQt8H4,SA95H2|sk||at|

       { we unsuccessfully finessed Against the Ace but were able to
          subsequently finesse against the remaining Jack later on}|pg||nt|

        NB Whether the layout of the cards was as above or|md|S432HA,SA76H3,SKQt8H4,SJ95H2|pg||nt|or as above|md|S432HA,SJ76H3,SKQt8H4,SA95H2|at|
        { Finesse the King or Queen first and not to consider the 10}|at|

         {and if it is the second layout you can still fall back on the finesse of the 10 later on}|pg||bt||nt|    

           ^*BHappy Finessing^*N|