Get Those Agreements Sorted

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Dealer: South
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: Pairs
  1. spade10 5 2
  2. heartQ J 7
  3. diamondJ 9 6 4 3
  4. club9 6
  1. spadeA Q J 4
  2. heart8 6 5 4 3
  3. diamond2
  4. clubA K 7
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - - - -
S - - - - -
E 4 2 1 6 2
W 4 2 1 6 2
Green square in centre
  1. spadeK 9 8 7 6
  2. heart—
  3. diamondA K 8 5
  4. clubJ 8 4 2

Contract: 4spade
Declarer: East
Lead: heartA
  1. spade3
  2. heartA K 10 9 2
  3. diamondQ 10 7
  4. clubQ 10 5 3
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass
1heart Pass 1spade Pass
3spade Pass 4diamond Pass
4spade Pass Pass Pass
There is no way that you can compete with those pairs bidding and making 6spade, so you must make more tricks than the other underbidders.

Beginners might have done quite well playing this hand because the obvious line heartA lead is a cross ruff. You ruff the opening lead and play a club to the ace and come back to diamondA. Now across to clubK to ruff a heart in hand. (You play the clubs like this, as opposed to cashing clubAK from dummy, in case South started with an unlikely singleton.) Now cash diamondK discarding the club from dummy and ruff a diamond. It's plain sailing now - ruffing hearts in hand and minors in the dummy.

But ....
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