That Extra Percentage

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Dealer: North
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade6 5 3
  2. heartK 6
  3. diamondA Q 10 7 5
  4. clubA 8 5
  1. spadeK 9
  2. heartJ 10 9 5 3
  3. diamond2
  4. clubQ 10 6 4 3
club diamond heart spade NT
N - 6 - 6 4
S - 6 - 6 4
E 2 - 2 - -
W 2 - 2 - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeJ 10 7
  2. heartQ 8 7 4 2
  3. diamond8
  4. clubK J 9 2

Contract: 6diamond
Declarer: South
Lead: heartJ
  1. spadeA Q 8 4 2
  2. heartA
  3. diamondK J 9 6 4 3
  4. club7
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1NT Pass 3diamond
Pass 4club* Pass 4heart
Pass 5diamond Pass 6diamond
Pass Pass Pass

* Cue bid agreeing diamond

Recommended line 1 was this: Win the opening lead in hand and play clubA, ruff a club. A trump follows back to dummy (E-W trumps are 1-1), heartK is cashed throwing a spade and the last club is ruffed. The spadeA is cashed, dummy is entered with a trump and a spade led from dummy with the intention of playing the queen from hand if East plays low. The theory is that West will be end-played if he started with spadeKx and have to concede a ruff and discard, while if the finesse was right originally there would still be only one trick to lose.

In fact West did start with spadeKx, the slam was made and everyone said what a classic piece of declarer play.
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