trump coup

Then the lead of either red card effects the trump coup.

Now declarer's only chance to make the contract was with a trump coup.

Backing his judgment, Schwartz planned to execute a trump coup.

East's jack-nine of spades were trapped in a trump coup.

A trump reduction play is sometimes a necessary precursor to a trump coup.

Since dummy's remaining hearts are high, leading clubs through West executes a trump coup.

To execute a trump coup, declarer must have exactly the same number of trumps as the defender.

It was a textbook trump coup.

The grandest play in the game, terminologically speaking, is the Grand Trump Coup.

A trump coup in which the cards ruffed in the long trump hand are already winners.

Now the only hope was a trump coup, so South had to shorten her trumps and manage her entries to dummy carefully.

He planned a trump coup, which could only succeed if he could shorten his trumps to match East's length.

In effect, a trump coup against a king (or rather, the second-highest remaining trump) must find it guarded by exactly one other trump.

Any of several specific play techniques, such as the Scissors coup, Trump coup or Devil's coup.

Grand coup A Trump coup where the cards ruffed in order to execute a trump reduction are winners.

Similarly, with A-K-J of trumps in hand, a trump coup against Q-x-x on the right is possible, and so on.

Often, for a trump coup to work, the key defender must have a suitable distribution in other suits, so that he cannot ruff a declarer's winner prematurely.

South had to decide who held the spade jack, and made his contract by playing low, winning with the ten and leading the diamond jack for a trump coup.

Usually this is undesirable but is sometimes necessary to adjust the number of trumps held while preparing a trump coup, or while preparing to defend certain squeezed positions.

Just as the trump coup resembles a direct finesse, except that trumps are not the suit led, so the coup en passant similarly resembles an indirect finesse.

Trump coup The Trump coup happens in the end-game when declarer needs to finesse in trumps but doesn't have one to lead up.

In positions where a finesse in trumps cannot be taken because the hand that would need to lead trumps has none, a trump coup or coup en passant may be used.

Sometimes a declarer with too many trumps, but needing to do a trump coup, can set up the desired position by entering dummy and leading a suit he can ruff, to shorten his own trumps.

If this was a true card, South had to arrange a trump coup, which required that at Trick 12 the lead be on the board, with South having the jack-nine of clubs hovering over East's ten-seven.

(If East held another card instead of the small trump, say a diamond, North-South could still play the hand as just described, but the trump coup would be unnecessary as South could just drop the king of spades instead.)