Bid Conservatively Play Conservatively

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Dealer: East
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade6 3
  2. heart6 5 4 3
  3. diamondA 4
  4. club8 6 5 4 2
  1. spade4
  2. heart10 9 8 7 2
  3. diamond9 5 2
  4. clubA J 7 3
club diamond heart spade NT
N - 4 - - 4
S - 4 - - 4
E 1 - 3 - -
W 1 - 3 - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeK J 9 8 7 5
  2. heartK Q J
  3. diamond3
  4. clubQ 10 9

Contract: 5diamond
Declarer: South
Lead: spade4
  1. spadeA Q 10 2
  2. heartA
  3. diamondK Q J 10 8 7 6
  4. clubK
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1spade 5diamond
Pass Pass Pass
South reasoned that having bid conservatively, he should play conservatively. On winning East's spadeK with the ace, he immediately played a low spade from hand! On winning the trump return in hand, he ruffed spade10 with dummy's diamondA, returned to hand via heartA, drew trumps and claimed. Had declarer crossed to dummy's diamondA and finessed the spade10 at trick three, West would ruff and play another trump. South would be left with no way of disposing his two spade losers.
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