[Trumpace]

Scoring: Rubber

West leads ♣Q.

(Bidding 1NT - 2C - 2H -3NT, E/W silent.)

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What is best play?

(Assume American standard leads by E/W)

and Exercise: What are your approximate chances of making this contract?

As usual Adv/+ please hide the answers.

[goobers]

Club length is likely with W, either clubs have to break 4-4, or you need the suit to block.

I would duck twice.... I will not play W to have led from AQJxx(x) since I think he would be more worried about leading the suit, not to mention he would have overcalled if he had 6.

Grasping at straws here....

[han]

Spoiler

We don't have to worry about 4-4 splits. Good opponents rarely lead the queen from QJxxx, but QJ9xx is possible (although low from that holding is also very common). So against good opponents I would likely play the king at trick 2. Against weaker opponents I would play low on the first trick as well and then look at righty's signal.

[whereagles]

I once led a Q from AQJx. Dummy had that same Kxx and ducked my QJ... twice