#6 East West Vulnerable
East   South   West  North
 2♥         2♠        Pass     3♠
Pass      4♠         AP
 
                                                North
                                                ♠ J 8 4 3
                                                ♥ 7 6 2
                                                ♦ K J 10
                                                ♣ K J 4
                               West                                 East
                               ♠                                         ♠
                               ♥ K                                     ♥ 8
                               ♦                                         ♦ 
                               ♣                                        ♣
                                                South (you)
                                                ♠ A K Q 10 9
                                                ♥ 9 4
                                                ♦ A 10 9
                                                ♣ Q 10 9
 
West leads the ♥K. Defenders take the first two heart tricks and South trumps. What is South’s plan?
 
As South, after trumping the third heart, your problem is to find the ♦Q, a card that can be finessed in either direction, a two-way suit. Two-way suits lend themselves to counting. The idea is to play the other suits to determine the original distribution of the two-way suit.
 
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