Where is the king of clubs?

[plaur]

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South opens a 15-17 NT and you reach 6♠ after stayman and blackwood.

Lead a smallish ♦

Spades are 2-2[/hv]

I drew two rounds of trump. They were 2-2. Ruffed ♥ crossing back in ♦ and pulled the last ♦. Both opps had three ♥'s but RHO dropped ♣3 on the third diamond. I played a third round of trumps ending in dummy. RHO dropped a ♥ and LHO a ♦ reaching this:

 

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I lead ♣4 from dummy and got ♣J from RHO

What now?[/hv]

How was my play so far and what now?

[karlson]

Looks like unless righty has KJT9 he just endplayed himself for no reason, no? If he had that, he might have doubled stayman.

 

I win the ace and play one up.

[fromageGB]

Can't see any better play by you. By RHO, why play the J? He knows you have the A after Blackwood, so if his partner has the K the J is irrelevant. If he himself has the K, then playing the J is a must if he has KJT. So I would assume it is not a bluff, and duck this.

 

I would not double stayman with KJT.

[MarkDean]

Looks like unless righty has KJT9 he just endplayed himself for no reason, no? If he had that, he might have doubled stayman.

 

I win the ace and play one up.

Even if he has KJT94, he could have tossed the 9, and played the four the second time around.

 

I would definitely take the ace and play one up.

[plaur]

RHO started with ♣KJ1093 so had I ducked I would have made it. I didnt.

Funny thing was that the result was 11 tricks at every table:

4 x 4♠ 650

13 x 6♠ -100

2 x 6NT -100

3 x 7♠ -200