Louie can count nine tricks for South: five trumps, the ace of hearts, a heart ruff in dummy, the ace of diamonds (South surely has that card to accept North’s invitational raise) and one club.—Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024 Then West should continue with two more high hearts, forcing dummy to ruff, and East’s king of trumps wins the setting trick.—Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024 West ruffs, and the defense takes the A-K of hearts.—Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024 If East’s ace covers, South ruffs, leads a trump to dummy and leads the last diamond, pitching a club.—Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024 East wins and leads a club, and South ruffs and leads a diamond to dummy’s jack.—Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024 If declarer leads another heart, Cy wins and leads a third heart, forcing dummy to ruff and removing a key entry prematurely.—Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024 South ruffs in dummy and ruffs a club with the queen of trumps.—Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024 All dogs are good—some are just a little ruff around the edges.—Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 25 Aug. 2023
Verb
South should ruff the second heart, delaying his discard.—Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024 East wins and leads a fourth diamond, ruffed in dummy.—Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024 Cy then takes the K-A of clubs — West can’t gain by ruffing — and, having won nine tricks, ruffs dummy’s last club.—Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024 Against five diamonds, West led the king of spades, and South ruffed in dummy and led the jack of trumps, overtaking with his queen.—Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2024 South can ruff only one diamond in dummy and loses a diamond.—Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024 South then ruffs a club high, leads a trump to dummy’s jack and discards a diamond on the ace of clubs.—Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024 When East can’t ruff, South returns a trump to his hand and runs the diamonds to make the slam.—Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024 West won and led the queen of hearts, and South ruffed and ran his trumps.—Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
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