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One of the most important liabilities when capturing the moon is low hearts (2, 3 and 4 particularly) as a result of it’s a must to save them till everybody else is out of hearts. This is totally different from low playing cards in different fits, the place you’ll be able to attempt to play them early and guess on a no-trick hand. If somebody is sitting on just a few hearts (say simply the ace) and principally excessive playing cards in different fits, passing them the two of hearts will virtually actually destroy their plan.

On the opposite hand, probably the greatest methods to shoot the moon is with a fistful of excessive hearts that you need to use to attract all the different hearts. If somebody has A, Okay, Q, and 10 of hearts, passing them the two on this state of affairs will really scale back your capacity to cease them, as you’ll solely have three hearts left they usually can pull your entire hearts with the A, Okay, and Q. By comparability, when you had saved 4 hearts, you might have performed low hearts to the A, Okay, and Q, after which had the J in reserve to beat their 10.