Forcing an opponent to lead the suit you want them to lead is an art form. The strip and end-play is a valuable tool for making this happen!

This week we look at how to use the trump in partner’s hand to help us take a finesse in another suit. This ruffing finesse is a useful line of play when you think you know where a missing honor is located!

Ruffing in the long hand is often a bad thing. But if we do this bad thing enough, it can turn into a good thing by allowing us to turn the short side into a long side. Here we look at this dummy reversal line of play.

The trump suit can be used for more than just removing the opponents’ trump or keeping control of the hand. Here we look at another value of the trump suit, transportation!

Managing the trump suit and getting every value you can out of it is an important skill to master in order to improve your Declarer play!

Why choose between a finesse and a suit splitting? Find a way to try both — combining your chances is the key to better Declarer play and here we look at how to do it!

Here we look at how psychology is an important part of declarer play. Part of this is knowing when to be expect good things to happen and when to spend your mental energy worrying about bad breaks!

As Declarer we have many tools for helping us take more tricks. A “Hold Up Play” is a valuable one of these tools, especially in Notrump contracts. Here we look at some positions where it is best to choose not win the first trick.

Length in dummy can be valuable if we ruff out the suit, but length and strength in dummy can used in a variety of ways to produce extra winners.  

Establishing a long and relatively weak suit in dummy is usually done by ruffing the suit out.  We look at how best accomplish this!