Beer card cash nine winners, ending with the beer card. If the diamonds don't break, there's a chance that a defender will be pseudosqueezed and choose to discard a diamond. For declarer to discard three diamond honors risks losing the contract unnecessarily, and so forfeits the beer, even if diamonds turn out to break normally. Alternately, if North-South only exclude diamond partials from beer card enforcement, then the declarer in six diamonds can easily beer assuming trumps break. Declarer wins the (say) heart lead in the South hand and cashes one high trump in the North hand. When they break, declarer cashes
Diamonds (suit) Diamonds (suit) Diamonds or (four-colour deck) is one of the four suits of playing cards in the standard French deck. It corresponds to Bells in the German deck. The original French name of the suit is Carreau; in German it is known as Karo. In older German-language accounts of card games, Diamonds are frequently referred to as "Eckstein" ("cornerstone"). In Switzerland, the suit is still called "Egge" (="Ecke" i.e. "corner") today. The term "Karo" went into the German language in the 18th century from the French "carreau", which goes back to the Latin word, "quadrum", meaning "square" or "rectangle". The