When to Cover or Support a Nil in Spades

"Now, what does that nine tell you? Number one it tells you that he doesn't have the jack or queen because why wouldn't he have played the jack or queen under the ace. Why is he playing the nine? So that pretty much is giving you information that you can, and then he plays small, small. So now you play the king and low and behold your partner plays the six of diamonds. Okay, these are the plays, this has already been played. The king and now the six. So now that tells you that you can play the ten and say the queen comes out and on the third round your partner plays the three. So now you play this, another ten or perhaps the opponent stuffs the queen or the jack under the king. Now your partner has now played the three of diamonds. So that's very wonderful because now you can play the deuce of diamonds in complete comfort. Your partner has basically walked the suit down for you. So he's telling you, don't worry about that deuce of diamonds, that's not going to hurt me. I can now take a discard. Let's just say for example, he discards the king of hearts under that deuce of diamonds okay and he trumps it, and he shifts say, to a trump. Say he plays the four of spades. What is your job? Well, you want to play the, you can take a chance and hope your partner didn't go into nil with a jack, queen, or king but, the point is, is that he probably didn't. It wouldn't make any sense while the spade suit is masked here. So you're going to take the ace of spades. Now it gets a little bit dicey because, if you take the ace of spades you're faced with these two leads, but how many tricks does your partner expect you to pick up for him? He showed a bad club, say on that ace of spades he decides to drop the nine spot. Still you don't want to touch this suit because the bottom cards are low so you play the ten of spades and you've done the best job you could to cover your partners nil. Your partner will guide you, you assume your partner didn't go in for a bad nil. You've got a five bid in front of you, chances are the opponents are going to be thinking about making their hand. So keep in mind, cover your partner, when you're covering a nil lead high cards and give your partner a chance to take discards."