When I played this hand on OK Bridge I immediately decided I would play for split honours in clubs and lead twice from dummy playing East for one of the missing Club Honours, normally 75% chance of success and I went one off before you could say Jack Robinson... However my thinking was to say the least completely bizarre. If I had taken in the lead of the ª5 I would know that East has the missing Ace. If this is the case then WEST MUST hold the Club King for his overcall. (He cannot be a complete idiot overcalling with just the Spade King). So all I had to do was draw trumps and play Ace and another club towards dummy’s Queen. Now its plain sailing winning 5 trumps, 4 Diamonds (when the diamonds broke kindly) and 3 clubs.

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