Too few hands are played for game in a minor suit. Most players prefer an insecure three no-trump contract, or a major-suit contract with a weak trump suit, to a try for eleven tricks in a minor suit.
Hands of the following North-South type, however, are better played in a minor trump suit even when one or two extra tricks are required for game. sour % 7 oe 1083
South dealt, with North-South vulnerable. The bidding:
1 Heart spade 2 Hearts Soum West Norm 3 Clubs Pass 4 Clubs Pass Pass Hearts Pass 5 Clubs East Pass Pass Pass North might better have bid his own weak club suit than raise hearts with only two of them.
West led the spade ace, then the spade queen, which declarer trumped. This is the type of hand with which it is proper to cash the ace and king of trumps, then leave the opponents' high trump at large and proceed to eross-rut if possible. But when South took the ace of clubs and then ihe king, East showed out and the play of the hand ceased to be simple.
A spade was immediately led from dummy and ruffed. Then the ace and king of hearts were taken and the queen of hearts was played. West put on the nine of clubs and dummy over-ruffed with the' ten. To make the hand, South now had to lead the two of diamonds from dummy and risk a finesse pf the ien. The finesse won; so South led his heart jack and discarded dummy's losing spade. West at this point could take only his queen of trumps and the contract was made.
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