[corman]

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You play 4♥ in East, lead J♠, North plays Q♠ followed by A♠ and K♠, you ruff with the 2♥.
What do you play?

[P_Marlowe]

Hi,

I am not good at those things.

My plan would basically be to establish club via a ruffing finnesse.

What you should avoid, is trying to ruff diamonds, as long as the
Ace of diamonds is alive, you stop the diamonds.

On first though,
Play 2 rounds of trump, keeping a top honor in dummy, and play AQ in
clubs.
This plan assumes trumps to be 3-2, and quite likely clubs 3-3.
Maybe playing clubs immediately, with only 1 round of trumps, keeping KQ in
dummy, may help you, with clubs 4-2, since you can use the high trumps as
entry to dummy.

In the end this is a thin game, and you need good things to happen, 3-2 trump
break, and something sensible in clubs.

With kind regards
Marlowe

[pescetom]

North couldn't find a bid despite AKQ and so I am going to play South for both minor kings and hope trumps behave.
Club to the J, club ruff, A diamonds pitching the spade, then pull trumps finishing in dummy to run the remaining clubs.

[smerriman]

I played with this a lot yesterday and couldn't make up my mind as to the best line.. but my preference at this point is club to the ace, ruff a low club. Then trump across and another club.

If North shows out, we have 10 tricks on a cross ruff; we're also fine if they're 3-3, or the king dropped doubleton (assuming a normal trump break).

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Edit - actually, same as above, but on the 3rd round of clubs, we run the Q:

- If North shows out, we're making 10 tricks on a cross-ruff as above.
- If clubs break 3-3, we have 10 tricks even if South wins the K (assuming trumps break as always)
- If North has Kxxx and covers, we ruff with the T.. or if they duck, we throw a diamond.. we make in a lot of these cases too if South has to ruff from trump length and/or return a diamond into our AQ.

Hopefully I didn't miss anything in all of that.

[pescetom]

So do we get to see the hand?