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creich ♠︎9 ♥︎762 ♦︎Q854 ♣︎AQJ109 |
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| charleymus ♠︎KJ852 ♥︎KJ10543 ♦︎— ♣︎K5 |
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joanyel ♠︎1076 ♥︎Q98 ♦︎KJ1092 ♣︎72 |
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| WillHaack ♠︎AQ43 ♥︎A ♦︎A763 ♣︎8643 |
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After a Michael's bid and a 3 heart bid, west led the jack of hearts. Plan your play at match points.
North stretched to 4 diamonds. Many pairs will stop in 3 hearts, which will go down at most tables. It's easy to find the spade ruff, so the defense should take 5 tricks no matter where the king of clubs lies. Thus declarer must make 4 diamonds.
West is likely 5-6-0-2 or 5-6-1-1 from the bidding. It follows that east has 3 cards in each major and a 4+ card diamond suit, likely 5 to justify his double despite his 8 and 9 card fit with his partner.
If west is 5-6-0-2 you can run the following line after winning the ace of hearts. Space ace, spade ruff, heart ruff, spade ruff, heart ruff. That puts us at 6 tricks. Now we need 2 more clubs and 2 more diamonds. The only way to get two clubs is to finesse against the club king. Once it wins and clubs are discovered to be 2-2, declarer exists via a club, endplaying east.
It's interesting to note that west, seeing the dummy's AQJT9, could play the king of clubs on the first club trick. Now after winning the with the club ace, declarer is put to a guess. He can play the ace of diamonds to get west's singleton trump and then cash 2 more clubs or continue with his original plan of cashing the second club and endplaying east.