[Ant590]

Scoring: IMP

1♣ - (1♦) - 4♠ - (pass)
pass - (5♦) - pass - (pass)
5♠ - all pass

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Left hand opponent leads a small diamond, won by East with the ace.

Then a turn up for the books, East cashes the club ace and returns a small diamond.

Adv+ please reply in invisible ink... hopefully someone will agree with the line I was very pleased to find at the table

[rbforster]

I'd ruff high and then draw trumps ending in my hand (up to the A, J and back to the Q if necessary (otherwise overtaking the J with the Q back if spades are 2-1) and then consider my options.

It seems unlikely for East to have the J♣ given he cashed his ace over the board's KQ. Therefore I'd run the T♣, expecting it to be covered by West's jack, return with a diamond ruff, and then run my trumps before taking the club finesse of the 8 for my heart pitch. There might be squeeze chances too... I'll think about those and maybe update this.