The course

The double finesse

Step 5 of 5

When the second card is not an honour

Ace, jack, nine. This looks like the first holding with a worse third card, and it plays like one too — but the nine is doing real work, and that costs you.

Take 2 tricks.

Dummy
Lead from either hand.
Declarer

Play a card from either hand. Play the line you would play — nothing here is scored, and you can start the suit again whenever you like.