Careful, now

[kenrexford]

[hv=d=s&v=b&n=sak10xxhxxxxdkjca9&s=s9xhkqxdaq109xc10xx]133|200|Scoring: MP[/hv]

 

Contract is 4♠ in the North. Club lead. Plan the play.

 

If you...

at some point play the Ace and King of spades, everyone will play small spade on both of those cards.

 

[aguahombre]

that is a tricky "if you". I guess it means if I lead a low spade at trick two, the opps will play the queen and jack on this trick, then both follow when I regain the lead and play the top ones.

[Jlall]

AK of spades followed by 3 diamonds pitching a club seems pretty obvious. If that holds play another diamond pitching a heart.

 

I almost always make with diamonds not 5-1 (unless the HA is off and spades are 4-2 with the hand that has 2 diamonds having 4 spades etc).

 

At first I thought this hand was gonna be about making an overtrick and I was gonna say how we got to a really good contract, then I noticed there is no way to make an overtrick.

 

Unless I'm missing something this is our best shot to make 4.

[kenrexford]

AK of spades followed by 3 diamonds pitching a club seems pretty obvious. If that holds play another diamond pitching a heart.

 

I almost always make with diamonds not 5-1 (unless the HA is off and spades are 4-2 with the hand that has 2 diamonds having 4 spades etc).

 

At first I thought this hand was gonna be about making an overtrick and I was gonna say how we got to a really good contract, then I noticed there is no way to make an overtrick.

 

Unless I'm missing something this is our best shot to make 4.

No -- that's the line. A lot of folks missed it, so I thought I'd share it. Of course, this is a no-brainer for most of us here, but not so much for the real world.

 

Diamonds split 4-2 with the 4 diamonds with the QJxx in trumps. The heart Ace was over the K-Q in hearts. So, on the proper line, you get a club pitch, then a heart pitch, and then even another heart pitch.