Example
Consider this layout of the club suit:
| ♣ A J 10 |
| ♣ K 8 |
South wants three tricks from clubs but the opponents have been successful in concealing the location of the ♣Q. South calls for the ♣J from dummy, and East follows suit with the ♣3. South now perpetrates the Alcatraz Coup by discarding from a different suit, thus committing a revoke. Then:
- If West follows suit with a small card, South corrects his revoke by replacing his discard with the ♣8. Having scored the ♣J, South now cashes the ♣K and later the ♣A.
- If West plays the ♣Q on dummy's ♣J, South corrects his revoke by replacing his discard with the ♣K. West can now take back his ♣Q, of course, but with the position exposed South confidently finesses West for the ♣Q.
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