6 Clubs, how to play

[xx1943]

[hv=d=e&v=e&w=s43hkq932d5ck9864&e=sakqthdakj96cqj73]266|100|Scoring: IMP[/hv]

 

West North East South

 

- - 1♦ Pass

1♥ Pass 2♠ Pass

3♣ Pass 4♣ Pass

5♣ Pass 6♣ Pass

Pass Pass

 

 

 

Trick 1: ♠9 ♠A ♠8 ♠4

Trick 2: ♣Q ♣2 ♣4 ♣10

 

Now what? What is your plan to combine the different chances.

 

Al

[Fluffy]

I would had ruffed a diamond before playing any trump, and then trump to queen.

[MFA]

I'm cross-ruffing. Cash diamonds (spade discard), cash spades. Even if a spade is ruffed by south, I'm unlikely to have to rely on a ruffing finesse in hearts, since the diamonds might then provide the 12th trick.

If north has ♠9x and ♣Tx, he got me :).

[MFA]

Hmm, perhaps I should play 3 rounds of diamonds before cashing ♠AKQ. I can claim, if ♦Q drops third and so I avoid the risk of being trapped by a tricky north.

This line loses additionally only to south's xxx, Axxxx, xx, Axx, but then he might have overcalled.

 

Yes, I prefer this. Hmm, difficult board. There could easily be something much better.