[Tomi2]

Scoring: IMP

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Hi, you (south) are decl. in 7NT after a long bidding with your reg. pd. You have shown your good club suit and get a small club lead.
At the table this board was boring because hearts split 3-3 but how do you try to play this board as safe as possible, is there a 100% safety play?

thx,
Tomi2

[Flame]

There is no safe line, just try the 2 red suits and if nothing good happend there you have to guess (base of everything you've seen so far) how to finnese the spade suit. This isnt 100% but its pretty good.

[ajm218]

Interesting hand and its too late at night to work out what line is best so i'm going to try for a line that allows me to find a bit out about opps distribution before I commit to any line.

I'm going to win the lead, cash the KQ♥ and then cash four rounds of clubs throwing a heart from dummy and then cash the A♥ throwing a ♠ from dummy. I've played like this beacause i get to see at least two opp discards and with the KQT♦ in dummy am hoping to find out who has worthless diamonds and/or who can afford a spade pitch.

I am hoping to have garnered enough information at this point to decide between the ♠ fineese either way, or whether to play for a ♥/♦ squeee against either opp or a ♠/♦ squeeze against either opp.

I guess I may play for a squeeze if it looks like theres a chance of one, as this will also work if thers is QJ doubleton or tripleton ♦

[cherdano]

I would start by playing 3 rounds of diamonds, discarding a spade from hand. If LHO has the diamond length, I can play for a double squeeze, coming down to ♠A9 ♥Ax opposite ♠KJT ♦9. This works when the red suit guards are in different hands, which seems substantially better than guessing the ♠Q (when I am guessing, at least).

If RHO has the diamond guard, I don't anything better than what Flame suggested.

Double dummy you can always succeed, but I am pretty sure there is no 100% single-dummy line.

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