Finessing & Sequence Leads for Whist

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The terms that are indigenous to Bridge and Spades because Bridge, Spades, and Whist are in the same family. Finesse comes to mind, sequence leads come to mind are pretty standard for Whist as well because these games have the same basic structure. There's a trump suit, there's tricks, there's thirteen cards for each hand or twelve cards if you're playing kitty. So again, the basic strategy is, if for example you've declared hearts as trump, and your partner is on lead with an off suit ace or you get him in there with whatever. Now, this is a suit that you might not want to lead. Because, you see the combination of ace, queen. He knows that hearts are trump. You're not just going to surrender the king. You have a chance to perhaps, catch the king. you're either telling him that your looking for a trump lead back from him. Now if he happens to get in with a heart. He's going to lead a heart back to you and if this person plays low, you insert the queen. Now, if the king is over here, then you would have lost it anyway. But if the king is over here, 50 percent probability, then your queen will win the trick. Finesse, again, is an attempt to win a higher card with a lower card. We're trying to catch the king over here. Obviously, if your partner has the king, he's going to play it for you. He's going to play it for you. He's going to put that king right on the table and your going to go, "Wow, that's great", because that cleans up the whole suit. So if you have a big trump for your partner give it to him. Now, as far as, and there are different types of finesses to. We have king, jack, ten combinations and we talked about that in Spades. Again, you can look up the term finesse and easily find out. There's all kinds of them. Sequence leads same thing. If you have king, queen, jack in your hand, I don't care whether your defending, your a partner, your a declarer. Don't leave the jack, your partner is going to fly up with the ace. The king will either force the opponents ace or it'll tell your partner, especially if it walks through, the he's got the ace then you don't have to worry about that suit. Again, you want to manufacture tricks in the side suit, use the finessing techniques, if and when you can.

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