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|Suit preference signals1  compiled by Harold schogger|nt|






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            (5th blackened icon along bottom line)|pg||st||md|2SAKJT2HJt42DK5CAK,S5HAK932DA942C763,S8642Hq8DQJTCQjT9,Sq97H76D8763C8542|mb|ppp1sp2sp4sppp|sk|w|pg||sk|w|pn|South,West,North,East,South,West,North,East|mb|ppp1sp2sp4sppp|nt|You are on lead and of course lead your Ace of hearts|wt|w|pc|ha|sv|0|
pg||nt|and partner follows with the H7|pc|h8|pc|h7|pc|h5|pg||mb|ppp1sp2sp4sppp|nt|You are now going to follow up with your King|wt|w|pc|hk|sv|0|
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nt|declarer plays the Q from dummy|pc|h8|pg||pc|h6|nt|and partner follows with the 6 to complete a Peter confirming he has a probable doubleton

and declarer follows with the 4

(NB Partner needs to have a doubleton otherwise defence will only make three possible tricks)|pc|h4|pg||nt|what to play next ? 

you expect partner is going to ruff the third round of Hearts after his Peter ?

What extra message would you like to convey ?|pg||nt|You want to play a Heart back to tell him to ruff and immediately play back a Diamond 

Therefore you need a SUIT PREFERENCE SIGNAL|pg||nt|1. We ignore  trumps.
2. We ignore suit being played.
This means that there are two suits left.
Therefore if we play LOW RUBBISH in Hearts we want the lower remaining suit and if we play HIGH RUBBISH we would want the higher remaining suit.|hs|wh|pg||pg||nt|If by playing the 9H  we can convey one message and by playing the 2H a different message then these cards will indeed have served a useful purpose|pg||nt|since we want a Diamond back we will therefore have to play the H9|ls|wh|hc|h9|pg||nt|declarer tries to ruff high but you partner is able to overuff|pc|h9|pc|s8|pc|s9|pc|ht|pg||nt|East is awake and duly switches to a Diamond that you just requested|pc|d3|pc|dK|pc|da|pc|dt|pg||nt|you have now taken the first 5 tricks  to defeat the contract by two.|sv|0|
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pg||pg||nt|East is awake and duly switches to a Diamond that you just requested|pc|d3|pc|dK|pc|da|pc|dt|pg||nt|you have just taken  the first five tricks to defeat the contract by two tricks|pg||we will look at other suit preferecne signals in another moviemdskmd|2SAKJT2HJt42DK5CAK,S5HAK932DA942C763,S8642Hq8DQJTCQjT9,Sq97H76D8763C8542|sk||lc|h9|nt|Now with all  four hands  on view you can see that if 
a) East didn't Peter, then West might not have given him a third round Heart ruff.
b) East had not played back the H9 then East would not know to play back a Diamond after obtaining the ruff.|pg||bt||nt|we will deal with more suit preferecne signals in further bridge movies soon||||2SAKJT2HJt42DK5CAK,S5HAK932DA942C763,S8642Hq8DQJTCQjT9,Sq97H76D8763C8542||nt|you have just taken  the first five tricks to defeat the contract by two tricks|pg||sk||md|2SAKJT2HJt42DK5CAK,S5HAK932DA942C763,S8642Hq8DQJTCQjT9,Sq97H76D8763C8542|lc|h9|nt|now you can see all four hands you should be able to see that
a) unless East Peters, West will not give him a Heart ruff  
b) Unless West uses the suit preference signal, East will not know whether or not to play back a club or a Diamond after receiving his ruff|pg||