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Sorry, edited.

I believe the following works

Yeah, no clue. Of course, on the hand which prompted me to post this didn't have the ST, making the Q a clear play in hand 2.

Do signals really matter on this hand? Underleading heart to get CK and club ruff seems to be a reasonable (and probably the only) chance of setting the contract. If declarer is 6-1-3-3 with the DJ, that seems to be the only defense to beat it. If declarer is 6-1-2-4 with DJ9 or C86, again it seems like that is the only defense.

Sorry, this problem was a bit more open ended... I was wondering if playing the SQ in hand 2 at trick 1 could be one of the reasonable lines.

Citizen Kane. La Dolce Vita.

IMPS. Partner opens 1C, you bid 3NT ending the auction. LHO leads the spade 6 (playing 4th best leads). Plan the play in the following two cases: 1) [hv=pc=n&s=sathq53da742cqj52&n=sq43hakt7d63cat98]133|200[/hv] 2) [hv=pc=n&s=sathq53da742cqj52&n=sq432hak7d63cat98]133|200[/hv] As usual Adv/+ please refrain from spoiling too early. Please do comment if there is something I missed and this is not B/I.

Hi. Welcome to the forums! Assuming you are playing some form of standard american (2/1, sayc etc), your partner has no business bidding just 2S, which is non forcing. I think pass is fine, once you hear a 2S bid. In some versions of standard american even 3S by partner is non forcing, and I don't think partner should bid that. If you play fourth suit as game forcing, partner could have bid that. If you play fourth suit as invitational+, then 3S would be game forcing, I believe and that would show the hand partner held. As to the question of your second bid, I guess some folks might bid 2D instead of 2C, intending to rebid 3C if given a chance.

Well I did mention it :-)

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I think T is correct, not Q.

I believe low spade (without cashing the A) is the correct play. If you do decide to play a low spade, what spade do you play from hand when the 9 appears on your right?

Just repeating what others have said :-) I guess the 4 (not counting Kenberg's accidental vote) votes for competitive has surprised me enough to make this post. Competitive makes no sense! There was no bid after 2H. What are you competing for, by bidding 3H? Why make 2 when you can go down in 3 prize? It is not as if you won't get a chance to bid after opps try 3D...

Playing an IMP team game, with a little behind, you hold QT543, 2, 6432, QJT when you hear LHO (dealer) open 1H. Partner bids 1NT (16-18). RHO bids 2H and you bid 2S which shows 6-9 points and 5+ spades in your system. LHO bids 3D, partner bids 4S and RHO doubles (likely based on the missing trumps) and all pass. LHO leads the Heart K and you see. [hv=pc=n&s=sqt543h2d6432cqjt&n=sa8762ha53dj7cak6&d=w&v=0&b=8&a=1h1n2h2s3d4sdppp]266|200|Lead heart King.[/hv] Plan the play. As usual Adv/+ please refrain from spoiling too early.

I guess if declarer throws a club, partner can tell you have the ♣A and partner can signal count there. Maybe it is obvious that the signal _has_ to be count. Anyway, apologies if I have been asking questions with obvious answers, I tend to be in B/I mode most of the time :-)

I guess with a great partner, that is possible. Yes, I believe everyone agrees :-) The question was do you get greedy and try to cash the ♣A next (playing for 1-2-8-2) to get an extra trick (and potentially losing out to 1-2-9-1)? (This multiquote feature is nice :-))

btw, possibly stupid question: does the scoring matter to people who respond 1NT? (OP didn't specify, but I presume it is Matchpoints).

Which system is that? Can you please provide some links?

I think you bid just fine. What happened afterwards?

Yes, looks like that to me too :-) One possible concern: If declarer throws a club on HA, how do you continue?

Dupe.

Maybe, but LHO does not know partner is close to being broke. Dummy here is quite strong. Holding CAK, I don't see why LHO would need to risk blowing a trump trick by leading from Kxx. Your argument would make more sense (to me) if you had played RHO for the DK and cashed the DA at trick 2 :-)

+1 gwnn: Cash CA, and hope to get an extra trump trick by playing a heart. Also, I agree (and am curious): what can we read from the spade discard?

If from the cards played you aren't sure hearts are 4-4, you go up with the SA and switch to the D finesse line, so you don't really lose much over that line. Is there a downside of playing hearts? I guess RHO can play a club trying to knock out your hand entry, perhaps removing chances of catering to singleton ♦Q.

I would probably play the same as kenberg.