BunnyGo, on 2012-August-14, 10:23, said:
OK, I'll bump this with my own thoughts (at the table and afterwards).
I was thinking, "what a friendly lead. Not only didn't Qxxx(x) of diamonds not lead, but they led too low a heart to give me a free trick. Time to take advantage and get clubs right."
So, how to get clubs right. If the Jack is 4th anywhere, then I can't get more than 3 club tricks (against perfect defense). But I convinced myself that I wanted to lose to West if I had to, so I crossed in Spades and led small to the ten. I lost to J8 doubleton, and could have picked up the entire suit. With both diamond honors in East, with doubleton heart, careful play could have yielded 11 tricks.
Thoughts?
You led a club to the ten, it lost, the returned something, so you play the club Q from hand and overtake for ten tricks. Seems fine. Taking the diamond finesse first risks randomly going off if they cash diamond diamond diamond to clear the suit, and rise with the club ace to play the thirteenth diamond.
The physics is theoretical, but the fun is real. - Sheldon Cooper