The Five Level Belongs to Declarer

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Dealer: West
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: Point-a-board
  1. spade8 7
  2. heart9 5 2
  3. diamondA K Q 10 9 7 2
  4. club4
  1. spade3
  2. heartQ J 10 3
  3. diamond8
  4. clubA K Q J 9 8 5
club diamond heart spade NT
N - 3 - 4 -
S - 3 - 4 -
E 5 - 5 - -
W 5 - 5 - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeQ J
  2. heartA K 8 7 6
  3. diamondJ 5 4 3
  4. club10 6
  1. spadeA K 10 9 6 5 4 2
  2. heart4
  3. diamond6
  4. club7 3 2
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1club 2diamond* 2heart 4spade
5heart Pass Pass ???

* 7 playing tricks in diamond

No doubt that you bid 5spade - you would have been correct too, even if the opposition double. Our spotlighted South must have been in shock from the previous board because he passed, only to find that 5heart was unbeatable.with 5spade a likely cheap save at worst

In 5heart, N-S could take their two aces but that was all.

Against 5spade, if West leads a trump South has eleven top winners. If the defence leads a diamond, South wins and continues with diamondK discarding heart4. West ruffs and continues clubs, dummy ruffing the second. With West now devoid of trumps, diamondQ stands up and declarer then draws trumps for eleven tricks.

The best defence is for West to cash a heart and switch to a diamond. In dummy for the final time, declarer cashes high diamonds. West ruffs the second and there is still one club loser to come, but even -200 is better than -450 for South.
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