Source: 24th European Youth Team Championships Bulletins
With a solid trump support and nice top cards North raises the invitational call from South to game even though its minimum values for a 15-17NT. West leads the queen of diamonds, since you are almost sure to lose a diamond and two hearts – how are you going to make the right guess in clubs?
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The best chance is to duck the opening lead. West has big problems to know what’s going on and has to shift to hearts immediately. West will most probably continue with diamonds since East is going to encourage a continuation of that suit.
When West continues in diamonds, you jump up with the ace, pull king and ace of trumps and ruff dummy’s last diamond. With spades and diamonds eliminated you can safely exit with a heart and the defense has to open up the clubs or give you a ruff and discard.
The whole hand was:
