After a forcing 1NT response, you have to decide whether to reverse
with 2 or play it conservative with a 2 rebid on your three-card
suit.Which will you do?

 South You
   A 8 6 2
   A K Q 7 3
   J
   K 8 2

You decide that 2 is flying a bit too high, since partner may have
a very weak hand when he bids 1NT. He's not going to pass 2 with a
hand that will produce game, so you rebid 2. Now he raises to 3.
That's good. Your choice here is to rebid the strong hearts or bid 3
to describe short diamonds. Which will you do?

 South You
   A 8 6 2
   A K Q 7 3
   J
   K 8 2

It was a tough call, and you decided to rebid the hearts, because
partner might have a difficult time bidding 4 with a doubleton
without a rebid from you. Besides, you wanted to steer partner away
from clubs. Partner raises and everyone passes.

West leads the king of diamonds and dummy comes down:

 South You
   A 8 6 2
   A K Q 7 3
   J
   K 8 2

Opening lead: K

Partner's decision to raise hearts was a close one, and maybe he
should have rebid those clubs, but now you have to bring it in for a
landing. West continues with the Q at trick two. What is your plan?

 South You
   A 8 6 2
   A K Q 7 3
   J
   K 8 2

Opening lead: K

West did not shift to spades, so you have time to draw trumps and
take all those nice club tricks. Only problem is trump control. If
trumps are 4-2, you need to give up a trump trick while you still
have a trump in dummy to ruff a third diamond lead. The best line is
to ruff the second trick and lead a low heart from your hand. This
keeps control of the trumps. Win any return and claim 11 tricks if
trumps are no worse than 4-2. Well played! Over and out.

THE END

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 South You
   A 8 6 2
   A K Q 7 3
   J
   K 8 2

South 1 2 3

West pass pass pass

North 1NT 3 4

East pass pass all pass

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