[Codo]

Scoring: MP

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Your partner opens, the opps are silent:

1♥ 2♦
3♣ 3♠
4♣ 4NT
6NT

You never played a tournement with your partner before, but you are confident that 3 ♣ showed extras and that he obviously did not understood 4 NT as blackwood.
Anyway, you are in an interesting contract.
The lead is the ten of hearts, running to your queen.
Your plan?



If you decide to play a club now, you will see the jack from your rho.
And now?

[whereagles]

Cash 2 clubs. If it breaks 3-3 it makes. 4-2 you setup the last club and try for some squeeze. 5-1 you now cash the ♥A, ♦A and play a heart.

Hope I didn't mess up the entries.. lol.

[gnasher]

I'd cash a second heart at trick two, then if all follow cross to dummy and play another one. It seems unlikely that LHO would lead a heart from either 10x or K109x.

If hearts turn out to be 5-1, I'll probably need clubs 3-3, because I've messed up most of my squeeze chances.

[mikeh]

gnasher, on May 7 2009, 09:29 AM, said:

I'd cash a second heart at trick two, then if all follow cross to dummy and play another one. It seems unlikely that LHO would lead a heart from either 10x or K109x.

If hearts turn out to be 5-1, I'll probably need clubs 3-3, because I've messed up most of my squeeze chances.

agreed

I don't think it can be right to play on clubs... unless they are 3-3, we almost certainly can't recover from losing a club trick... our communications are a nightmare. Admittedly, playing on hearts riskd going down quickly when an opp gratefully wins two tricks, with clubs maybe 3-3 all along, but that strikes me as relatively unlikely for the reason given by gnasher.