This is a hand from the PanIIT inter IIT bridge tournament conducted online in 2020/2021.
Both vul, IMPS. You hold 8x, A9x, Q7xxxx, K9.
Partner passes, RHO opens 1S, you pass. LHO bids 4NT, RHO shows two keycards without Q and LHO bids 6S.
What would you lead?
Given that you hold HA, DQ and CK and LHO jumped directly to 4NT, it is very likely they have a distributional hand with a long and good club suit. The club finesse declarer needs is working, even if they can only take it once.
At the table I tried the lead of C9 from K9. This turned out to be a lucky lead as you can see from the four hands below.
| IMPS Both | North ♠ AQ7 ♥ J ♦ K ♣ AQJ76532 | |
| West ♠ 84 ♥ A92 ♦ Q76532 ♣ K9 | East ♠ T62 ♥ K87643 ♦ T98 ♣ 4 | |
| South ♠ KJ953 ♥ QT5 ♦ AJ4 ♣ T8 |
| W | N | E | S |
|---|---|---|---|
| P | 1S | ||
| P | 4NT | P | 5H |
| P | 6S | P | P |
| P |
Declarer decide to spurn the club finesse and went up with the CA and could no longer make the contract!
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