Assume That You Doubled

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Dealer: West
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeJ
  2. heartK J 9 8 7 2
  3. diamondA 10 2
  4. clubQ J 9
  1. spadeA Q 5 3
  2. heartA 6 4
  3. diamondK 8 6 5 3
  4. club8
club diamond heart spade NT
N 3 - 4 - -
S 3 - 4 - -
E - 4 - 3 -
W - 4 - 3 -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeK 10 8 6
  2. heart5
  3. diamondQ J 9 4
  4. club6 4 3 2

Contract: 4spadex
Declarer: East
Lead: diamond7
  1. spade9 7 4 2
  2. heartQ 10 3
  3. diamond7
  4. clubA K 10 7 5
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1diamond 1heart 1spade 3heart
3spade 4heart 4spade Dble
Pass Pass Pass
I hope you didn't lead a top club! This will make it impossible to defeat the contract. On any other lead declarer has to postpone drawing trumps because of the bad break and start on the diamonds instead. This gives you a chance to obtain two diamond ruffs but partner will still need to be very sharp to flash in with diamondA. For your part you will have to be very trusting of partner's diamond2 to underlead your clubAK to put him in again for your second ruff.

Looking again, would you prefer to be "sacrificing" in 5heart? There is a curious symmetry about this deal, for East must lead a club to beat 5heart and West must underlead spadeA to obtain a club ruff. All in all, I think I'd rather be declarer on this one!
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