The Video Transcript:

Okay, maybe it’ll go around to the person who has the high spade like the ace or king, and they’ll keep driving spades, and maybe the queen will come out, maybe not.

Again, let’s say the person with the queen takes it, and they shift to a diamond. Well, if the queen is short and you’ve got these two diamonds, you—I mean, if the person with the queen of spades has no diamonds, then that means that 11 diamonds are situated between the other two hands. That’s highly unlikely, possible, highly unlikely.

You would go up and hope that that wins and push another spade. So you have a perfect line of attack. Even if the king loses to the ace and they say, “Try a club,” or another diamond, you still have two more tries at ripping out the queen.

Let’s just say the person with the queen doesn’t, you know, has enough guards on it and they say the diamonds are gone, and you’re only with the jack of diamonds. Well, that’s not such a terrible hand.

Um, you can either lead the seven of clubs and hope that the four and the five are together in the same hand, or you could lead the three. Personally, I would lead the seven. It’s only the second round, and you should get out of that hand pretty clean.

And what are the chances the person with the queen had four other guards on it? So again, when you are planning your play, first thing, if you can drive the queen safely, drive it. Secondly, look at what the other people do. If the person who takes the lead doesn’t lead spades, then the chances are they have spade problems. So keep that in mind, drive the queen if you can safely, or make leads that get you off the lead possibly.