Unlucky Or Not

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Dealer: West
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: Pairs
  1. spadeA K 8 6 4
  2. heart7
  3. diamondK J 8 6
  4. clubK Q 10
  1. spade5
  2. heartJ 4 3
  3. diamondQ 10 9 7
  4. clubA 8 7 6 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N 3 5 6 1 6
S 3 5 6 1 6
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeQ J 10 9 7 3 2
  2. heart10 2
  3. diamond4
  4. club9 5 4

Contract: 6heart
Declarer: South
Lead: diamond10
  1. spade—
  2. heartA K Q 9 8 6 5
  3. diamondA 5 3 2
  4. clubJ 3
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass 1spade Pass 3heart
Pass 3NT Pass 4diamond*
Pass 5heart Pass 6heart
Pass Pass Pass

*cue-bid

South envisaged problems if both red suits broke unkindly. If he started on trumps immediately and found them to be 4-1, he might be beaten by a diamond ruff when crossing back to dummy, for the defence would immediately cash clubA. However there was something he could about this - cash the two top spades, discarding jack and three of clubs, before starting trumps. For this to be wrong the spades would have to be 1-7 or 0-8 and the diamonds 4-1 - about a 1% chance. You can see what happened. West ruffed the second spade and gave his partner a diamond ruff.

I felt very sorry for South until I thought about the bidding. He should have simply raised 3NT to 6NT. Maybe he got what he deserved after all.
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