[WesleyC]

Playing IMPs against a slightly eccentric opponents you manage to overbid yourself to a pretty rotten 3NT contract...

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West leads the ♥A, East following small.
West continues with a ♥6, and East discards the ♠2 (low encourage).

Plan the play!

Spoiler

If you decide to test Diamonds, LHO shows up with the singleton ♦T.

[nige1]

WesleyC, on 2015-October-04, 23:51, said:

Playing IMPs against a slightly eccentric opponents you manage to overbid yourself to a pretty rotten 3NT contract...
West leads the ♥A, East following small.
West continues with a ♥6, and East discards the ♠2 (low encourage).

Plan the play!

Spoiler

If you decide to test Diamonds, LHO shows up with the singleton ♦T.

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You might try leading

• ♣9, playing RHO for ♣JT8 or ♣JT7 or ♣K87 or any ♣K doubleton This seems a better hope than.
• ♣Q, playing RHO for ♣JT doubleton

[alok c]

Low to DA,low club from dummy.

[phil_20686]

WesleyC, on 2015-October-04, 23:51, said:

Playing IMPs against a slightly eccentric opponents you manage to overbid yourself to a pretty rotten 3NT contract...

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West leads the ♥A, East following small.
West continues with a ♥6, and East discards the ♠2 (low encourage).

Plan the play!

Spoiler

If you decide to test Diamonds, LHO shows up with the singleton ♦T.

Given the heart card of the 6 at the second round its basically impossible for lho not to have the club K, and almost certainly the J as well. Unless you think lho is just messing with you. He cannot have neither black K and most likely has both, but with stuff in both why not signal for a spade in the unlikely event of partner getting in? Can declarer ever make if he cannot cash the clubs, why bother signalling for one?

I honestly don't see what else i can do except play west for kx club given the carding. So I have to table the club 9 and see what happens. If it runs round to the J or T I will play ace of clubs and hope that the K drops.

[WesleyC]

At the table LHO held [Kxx AQT9xxx T Kx] so the winning line (which I didn't find) was to run the ♣9.

Well done to nige and phil for finding it here!

I hadn't seen this suit combination before and it is actually quite complex.
As Nige points out running the 9 wins on quite a few layouts (although not JTx - Kx if RHO can work out to unblock the ♣K).

However, I would also often expect to succeed if LHO holds Jx or Tx and errors by covering the ♣9 - a pretty easy mistake to make!