The bidding:| West | North | East | South |
| | | | 1♠ |
| p | 1NT | p | 4♠ |
| p | p | p |
Although a lot can be said about the choice of opening bid, you fortunately managed to land on the contract of 4♠. West leads the ♥K. Plan the play.
A habit you should definitely hold on to is thinking about your prospects before you touch a card in dummy. You have four losers: a trump, two in hearts and one in clubs. one of the heart losers can be ruffed in dummy but the danger is your unkind opponents can remove the dummy's single trump before you take your ruff.
Suppose you win the opening lead with dummy's ♥A and play another heart. A not sleeping East can rise up with the heart jack or ten and play a spade through your holding. Having no trumps left in dummy, if the finesse loses to ♠Q, you are one down. What can you do about it?
Try holding up the ♥A at trick one, allowing West's ♥K to win. You are now in full control. No matter what West returns the contract is safe: you will either take your heart ruff (if West returns a minor suit) or you will not lose a trump to the ♠Q as West will give you a free finesse by returning a trump.
The full deal:
The deal has been taken from Barbara Seagram and David Bird's "25 Ways to Take More Tricks as Declarer."
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