mikeh, on 2018-May-03, 22:09, said:
win the club Ace, trump to hand...I am not playing east for 10xxx. I plan to draw trump, pitching a spade, then cash the top spade and cross in clubs to run the trump. As I play my last trump, I am down to x x x 10 and dummy is x AKJ void void. LHO has to hold the club J and hence must reduce to 2 hearts. I pitch the spade, and rho must hold the spade Q and hence reduce to 2 hearts. The Queen now drops.
I am playing LHO for a stiff spade and long clubs and assume that trump are behaving. It is interesting to consider that maybe an expert west would duck with the trump king unless it were stiff but I'm not catering to that. I think the club K switch suggests he isn't up to that anyway...he should switch to a heart imo.
This is how the hand was played. Its intetesting to me that you dont need the club ruff and you dont need the hearts if your read on spades and the
♣J is right.
LHO was indeed 1336.
Should LHO have ducked the diamond from KTx? This looks foolish when partner has Jx. If he does it in tempo I probably am playing a spade up for a 2nd hook. If he ruffs I have a nasty guess.