How Could I Have Known

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Dealer: West
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA K J 10
  2. heartA 9 7 5 4
  3. diamondA Q
  4. club7 5
  1. spade9 8 6 5 3
  2. heartK J 10 3
  3. diamond9 4 3
  4. clubK
club diamond heart spade NT
N 1 4 3 2 4
S 1 4 3 2 4
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spade7 2
  2. heart8 6
  3. diamond10 7 2
  4. clubA Q J 9 3 2

Contract: 4heart
Declarer: North
Lead: diamond2
  1. spadeQ 4
  2. heartQ 2
  3. diamondK J 8 6 5
  4. club10 8 6 4
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass 1heart 2club Pass
Pass 2spade Pass 3club
Pass 3heart Pass 4heart
Pass Pass Pass
You ruff East's return, play a heart to eight, queen and king and you can now engineer a trump end-play against West, for East's distribution is an open book now.

Why all this hypothetical nonsense? Well, it helps to soothe the jangled sensitivities of our illustrious leader after the opposition made 4heart against him. As you said, great one, 4heart is "Cold" on a diamond lead, but when I saw that 3NT had ten top tricks because of the blocked club position that's when it became a "How could I have known?" hand.

One of the opposition pairs knew alright! They scored +430.
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