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Bridge by Andrew Robson
False trail
You as declarer know what your hand is. The defenders do not. As in Poker, you frequently need to convince the defenders that you have a different hand from the one you are looking at.
West led his singleton Spade and East, hoping that his partner held a singleton (his defensive prospects looked unpromising otherwise), won the Ace and returned the eight. This was a suit-preference signal for the