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How will you play 6NT when West leads the queen of spades? You have eleven top tricks and will need to score a second club trick. The best play in the club suit depends on how many clubs West holds. You win the spade lead with the ace and continue with five rounds of diamonds, throwing a club and a spade from your hand.
West follows twice in diamonds and then discards spades. To complete your picture of the West hand you continue with the king and ace of hearts. When West follows twice, you can assume that his shape is 7-2-2-2 or 7-3-2-1. You lead a low club towards dummy and the two appears from West. If West started with K-2, you must rise with dummy's queen now. If instead he began with J-2 or 10-2, which is twice as likely, you must play dummy's nine of clubs. This will lose to the jack but you can cross to dummy's queen of hearts subsequently to run the queen of clubs. This will pick up East's king and pin the ten of clubs from West. It is clearly right to play the nine from dummy, rather than the queen. Not only are the odds 2- to-1 in your favour; many Wests would have risen with the king if they held K-x.See the full content of this document
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