play 3NT. weak D's.

[kgr]

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You open 1NT and end in 3NT after North showed 4=4 majors. Opps are not very good (RHO a little better then LHO).

LHO leads ♠7, you play small from N, RHO plays ♠8 and you take the Q.

Do you first try for ♣3-3 or do you immediatly play on ♥ and setup your 9th trick if opps don't find ♦ switch?

If you first try ♣'s then Hidden:

RHO discards ♥3 - lavinthal - on the 3rd ♣. How do you play ♥'s?

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[JLOL]

I would definitely play spades first, then clubs, then guess hearts. The legit line has too much going for it imo.

[kgr]

I would definitely play spades first, then clubs, then guess hearts. The legit line has too much going for it imo.

If you play 3 ♠'s then RHO shows ♠89T

and on the 3♣'s RHO follows twice and discards a small ♥. Where do you place ♥Q?

[JLOL]

I think RHO has Qxxxx of hearts. With xxx hearts and 3352 almost everyone pitches a diamond.

[kgr]

..I can add that RHO has ♠JT98, LHO did lead top of nothing.

[JLOL]

..I can add that RHO has ♠JT98, LHO did lead top of nothing.

LOL@ myself. Sorry.

[kgr]

I took ♠Q in my hand and played 3 rounds of ♣'s, RHO discarding a small ♥ on the 3th.

..This made me think that LHO had ♥Q, probably wrong thinking.

I now played a small ♠ to ♠K and tried to lead ♥J to see how fast RHO would follow. Maybe there was a very small delay, but I decided to take ♥A and did let ♥9 run which lost to ♥Q by RHO. (RHO had 4=4=3=2)

 

RHO now returned a ♠...but I could still not make it because I blocked my ♥'s. :)

So probably I must have hands in original post wrong and the really were something like:

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As said in original post: opps are not very good...=> Maybe it is best to take ♠A in dummy and run ♥J immediatly?