Any reason to get this right?

[Cascade]

[hv=d=e&v=n&e=sk3hkqt82d943cq74&s=sat954hj6d87cat98]266|200|Scoring: MP

Pass Pass 1♦ Pass

1♥ 1♠ 1NT Pass

3NT All Pass[/hv]

 

1NT is 15-17 hcp

 

Partner leads the ♠7 and declarer plays the king ...

[Cascade]

I guess this was too boring or too difficult or a non-problem ...

 

Maybe I should have added if you play the ace declarer follows with the ♠2.

 

Now the problem as I saw it was:

 

Does partner have ♠ J87 or ♠ 76?

 

Then the next issue was how good are declarer's diamonds?

 

And does declarer have the ♥A?

 

With something like:

 

♠ QJxx

♥ Ax

♦ AKQxx

♣ xx or Jx

 

We need to switch to a club - maybe low but ace might be fine at MPs

 

whereas with:

 

♠ Qxx

♥ Ax

♦ AQxxx

♣ Kxx

 

We need to set up our spades to beat the contract for sure

[Echognome]

I think it's more likely that declarer has a good spade stopper than a marginal one, given the free 1NT call, so I would switch to a club.

[Cascade]

I think it's more likely that declarer has a good spade stopper than a marginal one, given the free 1NT call, so I would switch to a club.

Ace or low?

 

Low at IMPs because you want to defeat the contract but this is MPs?

[kfay]

I'd continue spades.

 

With QJ8x wouldn't declarer play low off dummy? This seems like it will generate more spade tricks to me.

 

So I play partner for 3 spades.