Morton's Fork Coup

Morton's Fork Coup

Morton's Fork is a coup in contract bridge that forces an opponent to choose between letting declarer establish one or more extra tricks in the suit led, and losing the opportunity to win any trick in that suit. It takes its name from the expression Morton's Fork.

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    “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
    —Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904)

    “Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)