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|Ducking to bring in Long Suit compiled By Harold Schogger|nt|










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wt|w|nt|now plan your play|pc|H5|pg||
nt|Initially we have only 5 winners  4 Aces and King of Hearts|hc|casahahkda|pg||
nt|to get the extra tricks we will have to look at our longest suit|hs|nc|hs|sc|lc|sahadacahk|pg||sk|n|nt|looking at this north hand - apart from the Club Ace  there are a distinct lack of entries. 
Assuming we could get the North hand's clubs working we are going to have a problem getting there!!!|pg||nt|Therefore that Club Ace is so valuable that we must not waste it|pg||md|C32,Ck8,Cat97654,Cqj|nt|let us just look at the club suit  without any of the other cards bothering us for the moment|sk||pg||nt|if the clubs break 22 as shown here with each defender holding 2 each  then after two rounds al;l the clubs will be winners

BUT we will not be able to get to dummy|pg||nt|unless we conserve that Club Ace therefore
we will play a low card from each hand as follows|pc|c2|pc|c8|pc|c4|pc|cj|pg||nt|when we regain the intitiative we will play the ace and when all the cards come tumbling down let's see what happens|wt|s|pc|c3|pc|ck|pc|ca|pc|cq|pg||nt|we are now in North hand and all the clubs are winners  and we do not have problem getting there as we are now there having kept the Ace as our entry.|pg||nt|we can play clubs 10 9 7 6 5 all winners now|pc|ct|pg||nt|now let us go back to original hand and show you how this all maps out|md|3SAT53HAK4DAQT6C32,SQ86HJT7532DK9CKJ,SJ7HQD753CAT97654,SK942H986DJ842CQ8|ls|scnc|wt|n|mb|3cp3ntppp|pg||nt|west leads |pc|h5|pc|hq|pc|h6|pc|h4|pg||nt|after winning first trick with dummy's solitary queen you start with the club duck as planned playing a low club from each hand|pc|c4,c8,c2,cj|pg||nt|after winning this third trick you are now in driving seat to play your last club over to dummy's carefully preserved Ace, your access card to all those winning clubs|hs|nc|pc|h3d3h8hk|pg||pc|c3ckcacq|pg||pc|cts2s3h2|pg||nt|enjoy those clubs if you dare to !!|pc|c9s4s5h7|pg||pc|c7d2s10ht|pg||pc|c6d2d6s6|pg||pc|c5d8dts8|pg||nt|since you have such good control you can now take the Diamond finesse for the overtrick|pc|d7djdqdk|pg||nt|although west wins whatever he now plays back you can claim|pc|hj|mc|3|pg||pg||nt|you have amassed
1 Spade,
3 Hearts,
1 Diamond
6 clubs
|md|3SAT53HAK4DAQT6C32,SQ86HJT7532DK9CKJ,SJ7HQD753CAT97654,SK942H986DJ842CQ8|ls|nc|mb|3cp3nppp|pg||nt|you are pleased that  the diamond finesse was wrong or you would be kicking yourself for not being in the slam!!!|md|3SAT53HAK4DAQT6C32,SQ86HJT7532DK9CKJ,SJ7HQD753CAT97654,SK942H986DJ842CQ8|mb|3cp3ntppp|