[pescetom]

From the national MP pairs tournament in Alba on Sunday, a (finally) sunny day of late Spring.

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Most of 52 NS pairs ended up in 6♦ or (as you did) the more lucrative 6NT.
West leads ♥T.
Your plan (and would it have been different in the Teams Tournament of day before)?

[smerriman]

I assume East has all of the diamonds I'll win the Ace and take an immediate club finesse. If it wins, we have at least 12 tricks whatever happens. If it loses, then we can still make on the 0-4 split with a squeeze if clubs break and East holds the spade King.

[pescetom]

Yes that's more or less it

On first trick I think one would do well to drop the K under the A, although it turns out not to be necessary on your line of play.
I chose to run a diamond to the Ace first, figuring that diamonds will run 90% and reveal more about opponent's hands than the clubs would.
Of course West showed out and I didn't have the presence of mind to cross to dummy with hearts and run the clubs instead

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As it turned out, East did have the ♠K and would have been squeezed into conceding 13 tricks.
Despite many famous names, not one of 50 tables found the overtrick even by accident, with most in 6♦ making or 6NT making on a spades lead.

[mikeh]

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