| 1) West.
There are 27high-card points between the North-South hands, leaving only
13 for East-West. West must have the A
to have enough points to open 1 .
2) East or West. Although
West is a favorite to hold all the outstanding high cards, it's just possible
East could have the J.
West's oepning bid could include some distributional values as well as
high cards.
3)
Lead a club and finesse the C10. The DA is the only entry
to dummy. Use it to take a finesse against the CJ, hoping the complete
deal looks like this:
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