[Walddk]

Scoring: IMP

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From a Cayne-match the other day. You have bid to 6NT, the inferior slam (6♠ is not cold but much better). RHO opened a Multi 2♦, weak with one major, 6+ cards at this vulnerability.

West leads ♥9. Say you duck and East wins the jack. He continues hearts to dummy's ace, LHO following with a small card. Let's pretend you cash four rounds of spades, discarding the last heart from your hand. RHO follows to two rounds and pitches two hearts; LHO lets go a diamond.

How do you proceed? What do you think is the best line for your 12th trick?

Roland

[FrancesHinden]

Deep Finesse would definitely make this.

We can
- Squeeze LHO in the minors (cash the last spade discarding a club), making if he is 3244 or 3253 with the CQ, or if the CQ is doubleton
- Squeeze RHO in hearts and clubs, but not any more (I think we needed to take 3 rounds of diamonds earlier and not discard the heart)
- Take the diamond finesse. But if we were going to do that we also want to cash the AK of clubs earlier in case the queen is doubleton.
- Squeeze RHO in hearts and diamonds (discard a club on the 4th spade then AK of clubs, diamond to the Queen, fifth spade). This seems a poor line, it needs RHO to be exactly 2641

So I am going back slightly and will cash the AK of clubs before the third spade. If RHO discards, play for a red suit squeeze. Assuming everyone follows and the Queen doesn't drop, now run the spades. On the fourth spade discard a club from hand. On the fifth spade play for LHO to be squeezed in the minors.

[andrei]

how about keeping 10♥ and discarding a small ♣ on the 4th ♠, cashing AK♣, crossing to Q♦ and playing the last ♠ from dummy.

this will make anytime W has Q♣ or E has it doubleton or less.

[Walddk]

andrei, on Sep 16 2008, 10:38 PM, said:

how about keeping 10♥ and discarding a small ♣ on the 4th ♠, cashing AK♣, crossing to Q♦ and playing the last ♠ from dummy.

this will make anytime W has Q♣ or E has it doubleton or less.

Sounds like a plan, but will fail when East has ♣Q guarded. I don't know who is more likely to have ♣Q; after all East opened his weak 2 vulnerable against not, so I think it's touch and go.

The way I played it I think West's diamond discard on the 4th spade indicated how the minors were distributed.

Roland