This deal gets my vote for the best defense ever. It occurred during the 1985 International Team Trial to pick the U.S. team for that year's Bermuda Bowl world championship. Try it for yourself first.
When you have some kind of a finesse to take to make your contract, put off the finesse until the last possible moment. In the meantime, try to get an accurate count on the opponents' hands.
Expert defense involves collecting clues about the hand from the bidding and early play and putting all the information into place to solve the puzzle of how to defeat their contract.
Counting the known cards in a suit held by various players, next adding their amounts together and then subtracting that total from 13—that simple process constitutes about half of the entire procedure known as "card reading."
When you pick up your hand and notice an eight card suit in it, you can say that your desired trump suit is pretty obvious regardless of partner's holding.
