The complete auction player . he queenagainst him. By letting the suit come up tohim, from any other player, he may be able tocatch the queen by a Nines and tens are the indicators as to theproper method of taking a finesse. Holding(in the two hands) the ace, the jack, andeither the king or queen (but lacking the otherof them), your object is to catch that missinghonour by a fortunate finesse. Everyoneknows enough to finesse from the low handto the high. Not everyone knows the properway to do it. Let us suppose that the jack lies in the 164 Complete Auction Player dummy and the
The complete auction player . he queenagainst him. By letting the suit come up tohim, from any other player, he may be able tocatch the queen by a Nines and tens are the indicators as to theproper method of taking a finesse. Holding(in the two hands) the ace, the jack, andeither the king or queen (but lacking the otherof them), your object is to catch that missinghonour by a fortunate finesse. Everyoneknows enough to finesse from the low handto the high. Not everyone knows the properway to do it. Let us suppose that the jack lies in the 164 Complete Auction Player dummy and the ace-queen in your own course, you must never lead up to thejack; that would make the king a taker, nomatter where he lay. You must get into thejack-hand by a side-lead, and lead up to yourace-queen. Holding, in either hand, the nineythe ten, or both, lead your jack towards your ace-queen. Holding neither the nine nor the ten,lead a low card towards your ace-queen. Aconcrete example will make this plain: 9 J?3 9 10 9 4. ^ K6 £? AQ852 The lead is with Y. It does not look asthough As ten should ever take, with buttwo cards to guard it. Yet if Ys jack is led,As ten will take. Y plays jack, B king, Zace, and A four. Z has then to lead the ace;and, on the third round, As ten is good. DidA hold one more small card, both his nineand ten would take. Let a small card be led from Y. B playsking, Z ace, and A the four. Z leads back to THe Finesse 165 the jack, and then to his own queen,—andYs ten never takes. Did Z hold the ten, nine, or both, in eitherof his hands, it would be impossible thatthey should take against him. He would thenlead his jack towards his ace-queen. Re-member, then: Holding the nine, the tensor both, finesse thejack towards the ace-queen. Holding neithernine nor ten, finesse a low card towards the ace-queen. The same rule holds when the queen lies inone hand and the ace-jack in the other. The nine and ten should also be guides to-wards the advisability of c
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