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[Event "Club Championship, Mar 13, 2012 - Trump Coup"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Board "1"]
[West "Aaron"]
[North "Rishabh"]
[East "Mark"]
[South "Pete"]
[Dealer "W"]
[Vulnerable "NS"]
[Deal "W:QT.AKJ986..AQT54 A986432.Q.953.J2 J75.4.AKJT8.K876 K.T7532.Q7642.93"]
[Scoring ""]
[Declarer "W"]
[Contract "4H"]
[Result ""]
{Both the bidding and the play could have been different.  There would have
been no story, had West chosen 4\C instead of 4\H; or had he inserted the \H8
or 9 for his trump finesse, or simply played trumps from the top.  However,
the end position was almost very interesting:

                                                       \S 8 6 4 3   \H-   \D3 
 \C J 2

    \S-   \H K 9 8   \D-   \C A Q 10 5                                        
       \S J   \H-   \D A K J   \C K 8 7

                                                       \S-   \H 10 7   \DQ 6 4
  \C 9 3

The best Aaron could do was to lead to the \CK and play his winners.  This was
not effective, as I simply discarded until he had to ruff.  The \H10 stood up
as the setting trick.

Exchange the \C8 and \CJ.  Now at trick 7, declarer crosses to dummy with
either the \CK or \CJ and ruffs the \DJ to reduce his trump length to mine. 
Then he crosses to dummy with a second club to play his winners.  At trick 12,
the lead will be in dummy with both East and South having only trumps left. 
Declarer simply covers what South plays, a <i>trump coup</i>.

<i>- Pete Matthews</i>}
[Auction "W"]
1H 2S 3D Pass
4H AP
[Play "N"]
SA S5 SK ST
S9 S7 H2 SQ
D9 DT D7 =1= C4
HQ H4 H3 HJ
D5 D8 D2 =2= H6
S2 C6 H5 HA
[Note "1:Suit preference for spades (\S9 [high] asked for a diamond ruff?)"]
[Note "2:Hoping declarer would not ruff himself down."]
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