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Declarer was highly suspicious of the opening lead, and decided to play ace and another trump, East winning with Q. Unable to play a spade and unwilling to play on declarer's second suit, East had to content himself with diamonds. With Q dropping, whenever East was on lead he was left with the alternative of leading a diamond into dummy's J9 or a assisting declarer in picking up the club suit for only two losers. Eventually declarer ruffed a club in dummy, discarded the other club loser on J, and so 3 made exactly for +140.
West's laudable restraint in bidding spades at low levels was justified, for 2 is the limit for East-West.

In the other room West leapt to 4 over 1 and conceded 300.
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