[hanp]

Scoring: IMP

1H -p - 1S - (3C)
4C - p - 4D - p
4NT - p - 5H - p
6S - all pass

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Thoughts about the auction?

You receive the king of clubs lead and the ace holds. How do you play it?

[Apollo81]

♣A, ♠A, spade to ♠J.

If both opponents have followed in spades, ♦A and run the ♦J, pitching a club. The contract is cold as one red suit must split well.

If LHO shows out on the second spade, three rounds of hearts pitching clubs. If LHO has followed to all hearts, run the ♦Q. If it holds, ruff a heart, cash ♦A, ruff a diamond, and attempt to cash the last heart. RHO must either pitch the ♦K or ruff. If he ruffs, overruff, ruff a diamond, and ruff a club (we've taken 2 high trumps, 4 ruffs, 3 hearts, 2 diamonds, and 1 club). If he pitches the ♦K, just return to hand in trumps and cash diamond winners.

My line of play loses if LHO has the ♠Q and at least one other spade, or if spades are 4-1 with LHO having a small singleton, three or more hearts, and the ♦K. I haven't considered what to do if LHO plays the ♠T, ♠Q, or discards under the ♠A. I also haven't yet considered what to do if LHO has fewer than three hearts.

[gnasher]

Apollo81, on Jun 2 2009, 08:14 PM, said:

♣A, ♠A, spade to ♠J.
...
If LHO shows out on the second spade, three rounds of hearts pitching clubs. If LHO has followed to all hearts, run the ♦Q. If it holds, ruff a heart, cash ♦A, ruff a diamond, and attempt to cash the last heart. RHO must either pitch the ♦K or ruff. .... If he pitches the ♦K, just return to hand in trumps and cash diamond winners.

That's an attractive line, but I think there's a minor error in your analysis. At the point that you lead the winning heart and RHO throws ♦K, RHO has two trumps left, but you have only one, so you won't be able to draw trumps and cash the diamond winners.

Luckily, however, the two trumps are also the only cards he has left, so you can simply claim ♠K as your twelfth trick.

[Apollo81]

Yeah.

If LHO has 1 spade 2 hearts on this line, we have to guess the ♦K to make, I'd probably finesse against LHO if RHO doesn't cover the Q.

[hanp]

In practice overcaller had x x xxxxx KQ10xxx.

[pirate22]

the question declarer shld ask is where is Q 10 spades and where is K diamonds
so if opp (3cl bidder has xxspade) what ever
my line woud be win club play spade to K and spade back-shows out.now hts and discard clubs but Q10 spades defeats

Auction 1ht--pass--1sp--3cl (By west on a xx)however?Get the layoiut correct,if east bid clubs how did south bid 1 spade?
4cl!Cue bid-pass-4d-(first r control) pass-pass
now back to you-so evaluate. you have 14 points and a stiff Q
why 4 n/t support, your pards spades, he will go on -or pass
regards