[plaur]

Scoring: MP

South opens a 15-17 NT and you reach 6♠ after stayman and blackwood.
Lead a smallish ♦
Spades are 2-2

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I drew two rounds of trump. They were 2-2. Ruffed ♥ crossing back in ♦ and pulled the last ♦. Both opps had three ♥'s but RHO dropped ♣3 on the third diamond. I played a third round of trumps ending in dummy. RHO dropped a ♥ and LHO a ♦ reaching this:

Scoring: MP

I lead ♣4 from dummy and got ♣J from RHO
What now?

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How was my play so far and what now?

[karlson]

Looks like unless righty has KJT9 he just endplayed himself for no reason, no? If he had that, he might have doubled stayman.

I win the ace and play one up.

[fromageGB]

Can't see any better play by you. By RHO, why play the J? He knows you have the A after Blackwood, so if his partner has the K the J is irrelevant. If he himself has the K, then playing the J is a must if he has KJT. So I would assume it is not a bluff, and duck this.

I would not double stayman with KJT.

[MarkDean]

karlson, on Jun 4 2008, 02:38 PM, said:

Looks like unless righty has KJT9 he just endplayed himself for no reason, no? If he had that, he might have doubled stayman.

I win the ace and play one up.

Even if he has KJT94, he could have tossed the 9, and played the four the second time around.

I would definitely take the ace and play one up.

[plaur]

RHO started with ♣KJ1093 so had I ducked I would have made it. I didnt.
Funny thing was that the result was 11 tricks at every table:
4 x 4♠ 650
13 x 6♠ -100
2 x 6NT -100
3 x 7♠ -200