Declarer rule may save the day

If you watch declarers, you will see that when they are about to play a low card from hand, experts rarely table their lowest one, but less-experienced players almost always do.

Here is a good rule for declarers: When playing a spot-card from the closed hand, don't drop the lowest one; instead, play the next one up.

There are various reasons for that, the primary being to scramble the defenders' signals. But there is also the reason in this deal.