[plaur]

Trick 1: ♥4,K,3,2
Trick 2 :♠2,7,A,3

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A hand I played at the club the other night. I got a heart lead and played a spade to the ace, both opponents following. I drew trumps, ran club 9 to the Q and without really getting a count of the hands, took another club finesse. Made 12 with clubs KTxxx on side.
There seems to be a lot of options but I cant figure out the best plan. How would you play?

[jschafer]

I would play the same way. 3-3♦s is less than 36% after the preempt. The lack of K♣ lead makes the ♣T hook more appealing, LHO might lead it with KQ. Running the ♣9 is the % play anyway I think and these additional clues make it even better. The only thing I would do differently is to run the ♣7, making it more likely for LHO to cover if he has KQ♣.

[Fluffy]

You should actually play ♣7 instead of the 9, because LHO covering the 9 with the King gives you some trouble in a perfect defence world (I never found this kind of defence yet).

rough percentages can't be applied given that RHO has preempted, so the line decision must be intuitivelly picked.

A club losing to the 10 has still some additional recoveries, specially if opponents fail to play a diamond backon the form of minor suit squeeze, of maybe ♣KQ third dropping.