Percentage Play in Grand

Bridge is a game of percentage play. You will win most of the time if you bid, play and defense with the best percentage one. At love all, the biddings (precision style) are as below:

South	West	North	East
1C	pass	1H	pass
1S	pass	2H	pass
4C	pass	4NT	pass
5S	pass	5NT	pass
6H	pass	7H	all pass

West started with ♦6 and East play ♦Q. Here are the cards.

Dummy

♠ AKJ105

♥ AQ6

♦ 10432

♣ Q

Declarer

♠ 43

♥ KJ8754

♦ A8

♣ A93

How do you proceed? Truthfully this is a good grand with several chances to fulfill it. There are many ways to bring home the contract. First, to play for 5 cards tricks in spade by direct finesse to the 10 and then to the Jack (percentage play for 5 tricks). Other way is to ruff a club and grab 4 tricks spade only. This play needs a good distribution of outside trump, 2-2. The better way is to combine these two lines. Draw two round of trump ending in declarer hand (South). If trump breaks 3-1, you are in right hand to finesse spade for 5 tricks. If trump break evenly, then you can play spade for 4 tricks only. The better percentage play is to make a ruffing finesse. You will succeed if East hold the ♠Q or West has a singleton or doubleton ♠Q. Or you may change your plan if you think that spade is divided 3-3 outside. So, always combine your chances.