Declarer Play (2): Play at suit contracts

(1) Basic trump techniques 

• Trumps or no trumps?
• Drawing trumps - the basic rules
• Trumping the defenders’ winners
• Trumping losers
• Extra tricks by ruffing. Setting up extra tricks
• When to draw trumps. Delaying drawing trumps
• Quiz

(2) Avoiding losers and further trump techniques 

• Using the trump suit for entries
• Establishing a side suit by ruffing
• Discarding losers. Quiz
• More on trumping losers
• Avoiding an overuff

(3) Trump control, dummy reversal, the crossruff 

• Trump Control - introduction
• Suit contracts with no “long” trump hand
• The Dummy Reversal. Quiz
• The Crossruff

(4) Trump finesses, the hold-up, avoidance 

• Avoiding having your winners ruffed
• The finesse in a suit contract. The ruffing finesse
• Taking the right finesse
• The free finesse. An impossible finesse - the Trump Coup
• the hold-up and the danger hand when there are trumps

(5) The throw-in, simple elimination play 

• The throw-in play - introduction
• The Ruff and Discard
• Elimination Play
• The Partial Elimination. Timing in elimination play