[Hanoi5]

All white, my partner dealt and we arrived at 6♥x after this sequence:

1♦-Pa-1♥-1♠
2♥-3♠-4♥-Pa
Pa-4♠-X-Pa
6♥-Pa-Pa-X
All Pass

♠---
♥AQ9x
♦A98xx
♣Q7xx

♠Q876
♥KJ8x
♦KQ
♣KT8

♠A was led, how do you plan to make?

[nige1]

Hanoi5, on Jul 15 2010, 04:26 AM, said:

All white, my partner dealt and we arrived at 6♥x after this sequence:
1♦-Pa-1♥-1♠
2♥-3♠-4♥-Pa
Pa-4♠-X-Pa
6♥-Pa-Pa-X
All Pass
♠--- ♥AQ9x ♦A98xx ♣Q7xx
♠Q876 ♥KJ8x ♦KQ ♣KT8

♠A was led, how do you plan to make?

I'll get the ball rolling. My guess (hoping that ♦JT drop in three...) ♠ ruff, ♣x,

• If ♣K wins, then ♠ ruff, ♦Q, ♠ ruff, ♦K, ♠ ruff, ♦A9 chucking ♣s.
  
• If opponents win ♣A, and return a ♠ or a trump, then (in some order) ♠ ruff, ♥AQ ♦KQ, ♥KJ discarding ♣s, ♣Q...

[ceeb]

The ♦A needs to live, so that really requires ♦3-3, plus somehow not losing a trick to the ♥10 in the last 4 tricks.

Therefore, rolling along, it must be better to simply pull trumps -- ruff trick one, unblock ♦, pull trumps ending in dummy, discard all the spades if ♦J10 fall in 3, and finesse the ♣10.

[nige1]

ceeb, on Jul 18 2010, 10:17 AM, said:

Therefore, rolling along, it must be better to simply pull trumps -- ruff trick one, unblock ♦, pull trumps ending in dummy, discard all the spades if ♦J10 fall in 3, and finesse the ♣10.

Yes ceeb's line seems to be better If you cash ♦KQ and ♦JT fail to appear, then it may be a tiny improvement to test ♦ before drawing a second round of trumps. If RHO ruffs ♦A, you can over-ruff with slight residual chances.

[lmilne]

First instinct - club to ten at trick 2. Hope this loses to the ace, will probably be in good shape then. If it holds - probably not so good, but I have some chances anyway.

[PrinceNep]

I'm playing LHO to be 5-3-3-2 or 5-2-3-3. I want to protect against AJ of clubs (which is why I wouldn't hook the Club Jack at trick two).

I'm going to ruff trick one, KQ of diamonds, AQ of Hearts, A of Diamonds and a Club to the King. I assume this loses to LHO Ace of Clubs. He is either forced to lead away from AJ(x) of Clubs or King of Spades. If he happens to return the last trump, then I have to play him for AJ of Clubs, so I lead up to Queen.

If he returns the King of Spades (after winning the Club Ace), I ruff in dummy and play on Diamonds until RHO ruffs, which I over ruff and still have the Club Queen as an entry to get to the last potential diamond.

If he returns a Low Club (after winning the Club Ace), then I play low to the 10 ... this is the worst case scenario.

[ceeb]

Instead of ♣J with RHO, this line needs both ♣J on the left and the last trump on the right.

[wclass___]

What an auction!

I guess opponents have something like: LHO ♠Axxxx ♥xxxx ♦xx ♣Ax - RHO ♠Kxxx ♥x ♦xxxx ♣Jxxx

Where you can squeeze RHO. Ruff 1st trick, ♣ finesse, etc.

BTW, if LHO really has ♠Axxxx ♥xxxx ♦xx ♣Ax then it seems to me that he has found the only lead that allows 6♥ to make.