[bb79]

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South is declaring 6♥. e/w passed throughout the bidding.
lead is ♠J , east wins and returns ♣5.

I hope this is an instructive hand for int players.

[el mister]

I'll take a stab - we need to win all of the remaining tricks, so our options seem restricted to finessing East for the K♥. We have limited entries in dummy, though, so if ♥s break 3-2 or worse it may be difficult to cross to dummy for the second (and third) finesse. For this reason, should we play East for Q♣, play low and win the J♣ in dummy?

[Flameous]

I don't think letting the club run is that good. Better to win club, cash ♠K and ruff spade to dummy and let the ♥Q run. You need spades 5-3 (compared to diamonds 4-3) and hearts 3-2 compared to club finesse winning. If you have (get) some strong reason to think ♥s are 4-1, you can still survive when diamonds are 4-3 and you finesse the ♥9 on second round.

[vuroth]

Use the spade to cross to dummy for the trump finesse. Q♥. If west is void and east covers with the king, I hope the K♣ drops the queen to give me another entry to finesse the 9♥.

[Flameous]

You don't have another trump to finesse after ruff if they are 5-0. But then there is a chance of trump coup so the club needs to be cashed indeed. (Need east to be 3532 exactly)