ENTRY Management [PART 2]

For setting up and cashing a long suit you always need a certain number of entries in the hand of the long suit. A single missing entry and your hard-earned tricks from length will sit unusable, taunting you for the rest of the deal. To avoid this pitfall, the technique of ducking allows you to save an entry to hand or dummy for later. It consists in delaying cashing the top cards and rather starting by playing small from both hands. If you have to lose a trick to the defense, you might as well do it immediately!