[mikeh]

South opens and, after an auction in which South reverses and North shows values with club support, you reach a slightly pushy 6C by South. West leads the heart J, which you win with the Queen. You decide to test clubs by cashing the Ace, on which East shows out. Plan the play, being specific about your proposed line.

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The scoring is imps, although that ought not to matter.

[Cyberyeti]

♥A ♦AK, ♠A, ♠ ruff low, ♦ ruff, ♠ ruff high, ♦ ruff, spade ruff high so basically just lose a heart at the end

[Tramticket]

Dummy Reversal?

Win Queen of hearts and play the ace of clubs, discovering that east is void.

Spade to the ace and ruff a spade low. Ace of hearts, ace of diamonds, diamond to the king, ruff a spade high.

Ruff a diamond, ruff a spade high, ruff a diamond and cash the jack of clubs

Seems to need west to not have a void or singleton.

[gszes]

I am probably off base but the 2 LOP so far seem to be 1 trick short
trick 1 win heart cheaply as possible
trick 2 club ace (40 trump break ah well they haven't broken well for me this century)
trick 3 spade A
trick 4 ruff spade small
trick 5 heart A
trick 6 dia A
trick 7 dia to K (this gets all top cards out of way in preparation for cross ruff)
trick 8 ruff spade high
trick 9 low club to 8
trick 10 ruff spade high
trick 11 ruff dia
trick 12 cash club J
trick 13 surrender last trick to both opps OR if you hate lho that much
trick 11 lead dia and pitch heart if lho fails to ruff and claim last 2 with J9 over Tx

[Cyberyeti]

gszes, on 2017-August-09, 11:22, said:

I am probably off base but the 2 LOP so far seem to be 1 trick short

AKAQA are 5 side suit tricks. Ace of clubs 6, 3 spade ruffs 1 low 2 high 9, dummy's J98 of trumps 12

I really don't see a material difference to your line

[y66]

My proposed line is the same as Cy's.

[The_Badger]

Technique-wise cashing all your tricks in your side suits (as the other commentators have indicated) before embarking on a crossruff is absolutely correct, but what if the ♥J lead is a singleton?

By the way, I do realise that is a scenario that would be against the odds (of side suit splits).

[Tramticket]

The_Badger, on 2017-August-09, 22:28, said:

Technique-wise cashing all your tricks in your side suits (as the other commentators have indicated) before embarking on a crossruff is absolutely correct, but what if the ♥J lead is a singleton?

By the way, I do realise that is a scenario that would be against the odds (of side suit splits).

It looks a very likely singleton to me. But I've been scratching my head trying to work out how to cater for it. Hence my comment "Seems to need west to not have a void or singleton."