As
South, you need all six spade tricks and have plenty of entries
to your hand.
How
do you play the spade suit?
Lead
low from your hand and finesse West for the queen on the very
first round by playing the 10 or jack. If this wins, come
back to your hand and finesse again.
Error:
Some players will cash the ace or king first and then come
back to their hand and finesse on the second round. They They
are guarding against the singleton queen offside.
This
would be the right play if you held three small in your hand,
but it's inferior here. To see why, picture East with a singleton.
Now what are the odds that the singleton is the queen? Only
one out of five! But a small singleton will occur four out
of five times
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