Stupid Game

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Dealer: North
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: Pairs
  1. spadeK
  2. heartA J 8 5 2
  3. diamondJ 8 4 3
  4. clubA 7 3
  1. spadeQ 8 5 3
  2. heart7
  3. diamondQ 10 7 2
  4. clubK 8 6 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N - 2 3 - 2
S - 2 3 - 2
E 2 - - 2 -
W 2 - - 2 -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeJ 7 6 4 2
  2. heart9 3
  3. diamondA K
  4. clubQ 9 5 4

Contract: 4spadex
Declarer: East
Lead: heartK
  1. spadeA 10 9
  2. heartK Q 10 6 4
  3. diamond9 6 5
  4. clubJ 10
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1heart Pass 3heart
Dble 4heart 4spade Dble
Pass Pass Pass
With hearts eliminated for me, it seemed a good idea before broaching trumps to unblock the diamonds to prepare for an end-play, so diamondAK were cashed and a small spade led. South's spade9 was ducked and North won. She correctly exited with a heart, ruffed in dummy as I threw a club. Dummy was now down to one trump, and although there were nine winners I could not be sure of getting back to dummy with clubK, so I cashed the diamondQ and exited with spadeQ. South won spadeA and led clubJ. North completed her excellent defence by rising with clubA and leading diamondJ to promote South's spade10.

When I found that South had started with clubJ10 alone, I decided it was not my favourite hand of the year. 4spade doubled was minus two. E-W -300.
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