[ahydra]

Fun hand from a team match I just played. Puzzle for I/A - experts please use spoiler tags.

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IMPs, both vul. West leads CK, East showing upside-down count with the 9, then switches to the DJ (standard leads from sequences). How do you plan to make the hand?

ahydra

[FelicityR]

Delightful! Nice problem. Timing is all. Thank you for posting. Small hint. The 4th ♠ is a useful card if you can get to dummy.

[trojan56]

Duck the J of D. 10 of d is with W.play One round of trumps and enter dummy with spades and tak hrt finesse. lose one d one sp one club assuming hrt finesse works

[ahydra]

trojan56, on 2020-June-02, 05:12, said:

Duck the J of D. 10 of d is with W.play One round of trumps and enter dummy with spades and tak hrt finesse. lose one d one sp one club assuming hrt finesse works

Close - there's a slightly better line though.

ahydra

[nekthen]

trojan56, on 2020-June-02, 05:12, said:

Duck the J of D. 10 of d is with W.play One round of trumps and enter dummy with spades and tak hrt finesse. lose one d one sp one club assuming hrt finesse works

I do not see why you assume 10♦ with West. The ♦ switch looks normal and you would lead the J from any holding so as not to confuse partner holding KT

[nekthen]

ahydra, on 2020-June-01, 03:04, said:

Fun hand from a team match I just played. Puzzle for I/A - experts please use spoiler tags.

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IMPs, both vul. West leads CK, East showing upside-down count with the 9, then switches to the DJ (standard leads from sequences). How do you plan to make the hand?

ahydra

Equally I do not see why West switches, ruffing a club in hand does not help South