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Tip: DO delay drawing trumps when you can trump in dummy
Trumping in the hand with the shorter trump length – normally dummy – wins you extra tricks. And – unless dummy has four or more trumps – you cannot afford to draw the opposing trumps first, for if you do, dummy’s trumps will be gone.
Look for a suit in which dummy has fewer cards (0, 1 or 2) than you. Void the dummy, losing tricks if necessary (the defence doing best to lead trumps to remove dummy’s trumps), then trump extra card(s) in dummy – with trumps that would not otherwise win tricks.
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| Pass | 2 ♠1 | Pass | 4 ♠ |
| Pass | Pass | Pass |
| 1. (1) Much better than 1 NT in spite of the lack of a fourth spade. |
| 4 ♠ by South |
| Lead: ♦ Q |
Win ♦ Q lead with (say) ♦ K and delay drawing trumps (you could afford two rounds). Instead cash ♥ AK voiding dummy and trump ♥ 6 (with ♠ 3). Now cash ♠ K, over to ♠ AQ and you have ten winners (instead of the nine you would have had if you had drawn trumps immediately, as you would lose ♥ 6 instead of trumping it).
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| Pass | 2 ♥ | Pass | 4 ♥1 |
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| 4 ♥ by South |
South wins ♦ J lead with ♦ K and must delay drawing trumps. Lose two spades early on and he can trump the third in dummy; draw trumps straight away and he will lose three spades later on.
At trick two declarer leads ♠ 3 to ♠ 7, ♠ 8 and ♠ 10. East switches to ♥ J (best – removing dummy’s trumps) and declarer wins dummy’s ♥ Q and leads ♠ 4 to ♠ 2, ♠ J, and ♠ Q. West leads ♥ 8 but declarer wins ♥ K and trumps ♠ 6 with ♥ 6 (the crucial extra trick). He crosses to ♣ K and cashes ♥ A drawing West’s last trump. 10 tricks and game made.
‘I should have led a trump at trick one’, rued West.
