Sentence examples for a second round of trumps from inspiring English sources

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But South played a second round of trumps, ducked to his queen.

But when North led a second round of trumps to his king he was in trouble.

Since South had not played a second round of trumps, it looked as if East had the heart ace.

At Trick 5 declarer should have drawn a second round of trumps to give this position: When South leads his remaining spade, West has no answer.

If West had the heart ace and East the doubleton diamond king, declarer could have drawn a second round of trumps, run the diamond queen and thrown in West with his spade jack.

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After winning the first trick, in either hand, South must not lead a second round of trump.

A fourth round of trumps (perhaps by ruffing a third diamond from East) would have trump squeezed West in hearts and clubs.

He wanted to reach his partner's hand, so that East could lead a third round of trumps to stop a club ruff.

Declarer won that on the board and played a low club from both hands, but West carefully overtook East's eight with her jack to lead a third round of trumps and stop any club ruffs.

She won with her club ace, ruffed a spade in the dummy, drew trumps with the aid of the winning finesse, cashed her spade king and a fourth round of trumps, then played a diamond to the six, queen and king, which gave this position: What should East have led now?

A third round of trumps was won by the king in dummy, and the position was this: [Diagram] Kennedy now maneuvered nine tricks by cashing the club ace, ruffing a club and returning to dummy with a heart to draw the last trump.

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