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Hi, my name is Dan Kimbrough on behalf of expertvillage.com, in this clip I'm going
to discuss making a king count in a hand in which you have no ace for that suit. As you
can see we don't have the worlds greatest hand but if you look at the hearts which you
notice we got five hearts, almost to many but enough to make this work when we got the
king but we don't have the ace. So what you are going to want to do is lead the jack,
by leading the jack you are going to force whoever has the ace to play it. Now if your
partner has the ace they may not play it depending what else is played. But the queen is still
available as well and so say the person over here plays the queen, your partner then plays
the ace because they have to come over top of it and we want the book and this person
plays some ancillary part. Now the ace is out of play which means when you play your
king the king is now the highest card in the deck by not leading with the king and actually
using a lower heart to pull out the ace, you've made the king worth a book because feasibly
had you lead with the king, the ace would have beat me. Now it is someone else's lead,
the queen is out there who knows if this would have gone through. You may have gotten both
of these cards with no book received at all. By playing the jack first you pull the ace
out, the king becomes a card again.