How do you play this?

[Hanoi5]

[hv=pc=n&s=shkqt974daqj63cq7&n=sj872ha6dt754cat3&d=s&v=n&b=15&a=1h5cd5s6dppdppp]266|200[/hv]

 

A small club is led to the 3, 9 and Q.

 

How do you play the trumps?

Would you have bid differently?

Should North go back to hearts instead of passing 6♦?

[bigbenvic]

I think I'm cashing A♦ and spurning the hook. Would kick myself if they win the K and E ruffs the 2nd ♣.

 

I'm ok with the bidding, Only query is to the difference between passing 5♠ (has to be forcing) and bidding 6♦ over the X and bidding 6♦ over 5♠.

[gnasher]

Ace and another diamond would work if trumps were 3-1 - ruff the spade return, draw a third trump, then cash ♥A, which lets us pick up 5-0 hearts in either hand.

 

However, if diamonds are 0=4, hearts probably won't break either - LHO will be 2407. RHO will force me and the hand will fall apart.

 

LHO has bid 5♣ with a mediocre seven-card suit, so a 7-4 actually seems pretty likely. Hence I win trick one with ♣10 and run ♦10.

[AlexJonson]

I'd place West with something like 4 ? ? 7.

 

I'd play Ace and Queen of diamonds and take it from there. East can't then get a club ruff.