All About Timing Again

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Dealer: West
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA 9 7 5 2
  2. heartK J 9
  3. diamond—
  4. clubA Q J 6 3
  1. spade10
  2. heart5 3 2
  3. diamondA Q 10 9 8 6 3
  4. club7 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N 2 - 1 3 -
S 2 - 1 3 -
E - 2 - - -
W - 2 - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeK Q J
  2. heartQ 10 8 6
  3. diamondJ 2
  4. clubK 10 9 5

Contract: 4spade
Declarer: South
Lead: heart3
  1. spade8 6 4 3
  2. heartA 7 4
  3. diamondK 7 5 4
  4. club8 4
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
4diamond Dble Pass 4spade
Pass Pass Pass
Playing low from dummy at trick one, he decided that it would be better to bank on the trumps being 3-1 rather than worry about the clubs being 5-1 or hearts 6-1. Immediately he led a club for a finesse, although it was near certain that the finesse would lose. Winning with the clubK, and seemingly unable to attack hearts, East exited with a club, won in dummy. Declarer cashed spadeA and played on clubs. Eventually he was able to ruff a club in hand to establish dummy's fifth as a winner. On this he discarded a heart and then ruffed a heart in hand.

FTG was willing to lose two trumps, but not if they had two trumps from both North and South attached. Note that if the spadeA is released too early, East can pull two rounds of trumps and South must lose another trick
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