Any hope?

You deal yourself a nice looking 19 hcp vul opp fresh and thinking of all the slam auction sequences that you play, you open a club.

W
natskh
AJ92
K
K73
AKJ75

 Things don’t quite go the way you had hoped for. It soon becomes clear that not only are you not going to be in a slam or game, infact you are going to end up defending a partial. Here’s the auction as it unfolds.

W
West
N
North
E
East
S
South
1
1
Pass
1
Dbl
2
3
3
All Pass
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

With opponents bidding both red suits, your kings aren’t worth much. Pd doesn’t have spades so if you are going to compete it will have to be at 4 level. So you take the low road and pass 3 . Nobody has any more to say.

It seems natural to lead  A, nothing else has any appeal so you make it.

Lets see the dummy.

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