Palo Alto Bridge Center 4/1

Thanks to Neil for this one.

AJT87 Qx x AKJxx

MP unfavorable, you're in second seat

p - 1S - 3D - 3S
p - 4S - ap

The lead is the DA and you get

Q96 KTxxx xx xxx
AJT87 Qx x AKJxx

I don't like the 3S bid but that's neither here nor there. DA, followed by a low diamond to the Q, ruffed in your hand. I need to get to dummy, so I try a low heart to dummy's K and it holds. I don't know if this is best, it may be better to play a low heart to dummy's ten. Regardless, once it holds, LHO has AK of diamonds and the HA, you can be pretty sure that all the black cards are working.

I run the S9 from dummy and west shows out. Oops. This is the last time I'm going to be in dummy, so I hook the club and it holds, as expected. Two more rounds of clubs and east admits to Qxx. At this point the position is:

Q6
Txxx
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AJT
Q
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xx

I fell asleep and just decided to run clubs, pitching hearts from dummy. RHO can ruff with a baby trump, and you can't avoid losing a 4th trick to the SK.

The hand is actually made from here. What you have to do is ruff a club winner. If RHO ruffs and leads a trump, you simply draw trumps and concede the last heart: losing a heart, a diamond, and a spade. If RHO ruffs and plays a heart to LHO and a heart to force you, you have a high crossruff. If RHO refuses to ruff completely, you can just exit a heart, and they can't do anything to you.