[FrancesHinden]

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You bid to 6H after an auction starting 1D - 1S - 2NT - 3H (not sure what came next)
Jallerton on your left leads a low diamond, you put in the Q and RHO plays the Jack
You play a spade to the king and ace and the 8 of clubs is returned

Plan the play

[ggwhiz]

♣A ♥AK ♦A (club pitch and xruff

wins with hearts 2-2 or 3-1 with spades 4-3 ruffing the last one good but I won't be surprised if there is a better line.

[gnasher]

An improvement on ggwiz's line is to delay drawing trumps: ♣A, ♦A, ♦ ruff, ♠ ruff, ♣ ruff, ♠ ruff. If spades are 4-3, we draw trumps and revert to ggwiz's line. If they're 2=5, we crossruff for 12 tricks.

[FrancesHinden]

Is no-one worried about RHO's jack of diamonds? He didn't know you were about the play the 10

[gnasher]

FrancesHinden, on 2014-January-01, 12:44, said:

Is no-one worried about RHO's jack of diamonds? He didn't know you were about the play the 10

Actually I'm more worried about dummy's 1443 shape, and especially that I seem to have played eight tricks without noticing it.

[FrancesHinden]

gnasher, on 2014-January-01, 12:45, said:

Actually I'm more worried about dummy's 1443 shape, and especially that I seem to have played eight tricks without noticing it.

fixed

[wanoff]

Assuming diamonds are 7-1, I don't think you can do it now unless spades are 3-4 (trumps need to split). A diamond ruff and then the ♦A will squeeze East but we don't have the entries.
So I'll play ♣A, AK trumps, pitch a club, ruff a club and go for West to be 3271 or 2272 and ♣Hx.
You might have ducked the spade at trick 2 as I'm not sure if E has enough information to duck ♠A.

[nige1]

FrancesHinden, on 2014-January-01, 10:09, said:

You bid to 6H after an auction starting 1D - 1S - 2NT - 3H (not sure what came next). Jallerton on your left leads a low diamond, you put in the Q and RHO plays the Jack. You play a spade to the king and ace and the 8 of clubs is returned.

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As usuaI, I like Gnasher's line; but, in hindsight, you might attempt to cash ♦A at trick 2, because if RHO ruffs, then you probably need the ♣ finesse.

[jallerton]

FrancesHinden, on 2014-January-01, 10:09, said:

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You bid to 6H after an auction starting 1D - 1S - 2NT - 3H (not sure what came next)

With North the dealer: 1♦-1♠-2NT-3♥-4♣ (cue agreeing ♥)-4♦ (last train)-4NT-5♦-6♥.

[PhilKing]

wanoff, on 2014-January-01, 14:00, said:

You might have ducked the spade at trick 2 as I'm not sure if E has enough information to duck ♠A.

I don't think that is right against the actual opposition.

[gszes]

There is no need to play diamonds early we need to know if we need the

club finesse and the best way to determine that is to play a spade toward

K at trick 2. This caters to a couple of ideas. If LHO wins we need the club

finesse to have any chance. Second it is also possible lho could hold JT

and leading toward the K (assuming rho ducks) followed by the Q will allow

us to make the hand even when trumps break 31 (without resorting

to the club finesse). It is not easy to play all the possible lines depending

on what happens at trick 2 but I think the immediate spade play gives us

our best shot since rho might panic and rise with the A (not likely but

possible).

[madongjun]

♣A,♥A,♥K,Then crossruff,you need spade 3-4 or j10-Axxxx and heart 2-2,you win 2 spades+7 hearts+2 diamonds+1 clubs.