Precipitous Leap Or Not

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Dealer: East
Vuln: E-W
Scoring: Pairs
  1. spadeQ
  2. heartA 10 8
  3. diamondK 9
  4. club9 8 7 5 4 3 2
  1. spade8 7 5 4 2
  2. heartK 9
  3. diamondA 7 6 5 3
  4. club6
club diamond heart spade NT
N 4 2 - 3 3
S 4 2 - 3 3
E - - 1 - -
W - - 1 - -
Green square in centre
  1. spade10 6
  2. heartQ J 6 4 3 2
  3. diamondQ 2
  4. clubK J 10

Contract: 5club
Declarer: North
Lead: spade10
  1. spadeA K J 9 3
  2. heart7 5
  3. diamondJ 10 8 4
  4. clubA Q
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
2heart* Dble
Pass 5club Pass Pass
Pass

* weak

As you can see, the winning line is to continue with the spade winners discarding diamonds from hand. By the time East ruffs, your diamonds are gone and you can win and enter dummy with clubA drawing the last trump at the same time. Overtrickville.

If you drew a second round of trumps before running the spades you will be defeated by one trick because when East ruffs there is no entry to dummy's winners. My honest correspondent added that he didn't find the winning line at the table.

Hindsight is a perfect science, and I wonder how he would have felt if East had started with a 1-6-4-2 shape. The above line would have just scraped home but his line would have led to TWO overtricks!
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