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See main article Suit combinations. Tables presented below indicate the best line of play in contract bridge for a single suit in isolation in which declarer and dummy lack the jack but possess the ace, king, ten and queen. The required minimum number of tricks is indicated as well as the probability of success (POS). The line of play that is optimal in matchpoint scoring (the line of play that beats other lines of play on as many lay-outs as possible) is marked with (MP). Best defense is assumed (including falsecarding where necessary). In all cases it is assumed declarer and dummy have enough entries via the orther suits. In the lay-out for declarer and dummy, irrelevant small cards are denoted by 'x', and the ten is denoted by 'T'. In the descriptions 'RHO' stands for 'right hand opponent' (the opponent sitting behind dummy), and 'LHO' stands for 'left hand opponent' (the opponent sitting behind declarer).
[edit] 5 cards combined
| Declarer - dummy |
Tricks required |
Line of play |
POS |
| x - AKQT |
4 |
Finesse the 10 (mp) |
0.500 |
[edit] 6 cards combined
| Declarer - dummy |
Tricks required |
Line of play |
POS |
| x - AKQT9 |
5 |
Cash top honours (mp) |
0.363 |
| x - AKQTx |
5 |
Finesse the 10 (mp) |
0.311 |
| 4 |
Finesse the 10 (mp) |
0.811 |
| xx - AKQT |
4 |
Cash one top honour, then finesse the 10 (mp) |
0.505 |
[edit] 7 cards combined
| Declarer - dummy |
Tricks required |
Line of play |
POS |
| x - AKQT9x |
6 |
Cash the top honours (mp) |
0.541 |
| 5 |
Cash the top honours (mp) |
0.985 |
| xx - AKQT9 |
5 |
Cash the top honours (mp) |
0.541 |
| xx - AKQTx |
5 |
Cash the top honours (mp) |
0.517 |
| 4 |
Cash one top honour, then finesse the 10 |
0.932 |
| xxx - AKQT |
4 |
Cash the top honours (unless rho shows out in round one or two) (mp) |
0.609 |
| xxx - AKQ9 |
4 |
Cash two top honours, if a honour drops from RHO, finesse the nine, otherwise play third honour (mp) |
0.477 |
| QTx - AKxx |
4 |
Cash the top honours (mp) |
0.548 |
[edit] 8 cards combined
| Declarer - dummy |
Tricks required |
Line of play |
POS |
| x - AKQTxxx |
7 |
Cash the top honours (mp) |
0.730 |
| 6 |
Finesse the 10 |
0.980 |
| xx - AKQT9x |
6 |
Cash the top honours (mp) |
0.740 |
| xxx - AKQT9 |
5 |
Cash the AK, finesse the ten if RHO shows out (mp) |
0.850 |
| xxxx - AKQT |
4 |
Cash the top honours (unless RHO shows out in round one or two) (mp) |
0.870 |
| xxxx - AKQ9 |
4 |
Cash the top honours |
0.750 |
| Suit combinations in contract bridge |
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| Missing honours:
10 | J | Q | K | A
J10 | Q10 | QJ | K10 | KJ | KQ | A10 |AJ | AQ | AK
QJ10 | KJ10 | KQ10 | KQJ | AJ10 | AQ10 | AQJ | AK10 | AKJ | AKQ
KQJ10 | AQJ10 | AKJ10 | AKQ10 | AKQJ
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