[AL78]

After a hideous evening of 41% (my worst evening for a long time), I played this slam (which we shouldn't have been in).

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3♣ showed 10-12 HCP, 3 card support.

I realised I made life hard for myself. The ♠T dropping meant I could have taken the finesse a second time and made it, but where's the fun in that (and it was the last hand, I was a bit tired, cock-ups are more likely)? North could have thwarted it by throwing his last heart on the fourth round of clubs, then I can't throw the diamond at trick 11 to play through his trump holding at trick 12.

What is is called when you can't take a marked finesse, so you shorten your trumps , cash all your side winners, and come to an ending with a trump tenace over the opponent and use a non-trump card to take the finesse?

[nullve]

AL78, on 2020-July-17, 03:25, said:

What is is called when you can't take a marked finesse, so you shorten your trumps , cash all your side winners, and come to an ending with a trump tenace over the opponent and use a non-trump card to take the finesse?

A trump coup.