Make this slam

[Codo]

[hv=d=n&v=b&n=sa8hj8732dacakq43&s=skq97haqdkj972c92]133|200|Scoring: MP[/hv]

 

Your partner opens, the opps are silent:

 

1♥ 2♦

3♣ 3♠

4♣ 4NT

6NT

 

You never played a tournement with your partner before, but you are confident that 3 ♣ showed extras and that he obviously did not understood 4 NT as blackwood.

Anyway, you are in an interesting contract.

The lead is the ten of hearts, running to your queen.

Your plan?

 

 

 

If you decide to play a club now, you will see the jack from your rho.

And now?

[whereagles]

Cash 2 clubs. If it breaks 3-3 it makes. 4-2 you setup the last club and try for some squeeze. 5-1 you now cash the ♥A, ♦A and play a heart.

 

Hope I didn't mess up the entries.. lol.

[gnasher]

I'd cash a second heart at trick two, then if all follow cross to dummy and play another one. It seems unlikely that LHO would lead a heart from either 10x or K109x.

 

If hearts turn out to be 5-1, I'll probably need clubs 3-3, because I've messed up most of my squeeze chances.

[mikeh]

I'd cash a second heart at trick two, then if all follow cross to dummy and play another one. It seems unlikely that LHO would lead a heart from either 10x or K109x.

 

If hearts turn out to be 5-1, I'll probably need clubs 3-3, because I've messed up most of my squeeze chances.

agreed

 

I don't think it can be right to play on clubs... unless they are 3-3, we almost certainly can't recover from losing a club trick... our communications are a nightmare. Admittedly, playing on hearts riskd going down quickly when an opp gratefully wins two tricks, with clubs maybe 3-3 all along, but that strikes me as relatively unlikely for the reason given by gnasher.