Easy Peasy Or Battle to the End

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Dealer: West
Vuln: E-W
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeQ 7 5 3
  2. heartQ 5 4
  3. diamond7 5
  4. club10 9 8 6
  1. spadeA J 9 6
  2. heartK J 9 7 3
  3. diamondA
  4. clubA K 5
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - - - -
S - - - - -
E 2 6 1 2 1
W 2 6 1 2 1
Green square in centre
  1. spade10 2
  2. heart—
  3. diamondK Q J 10 6 4 3 2
  4. club7 4 2

Contract: 6diamond
Declarer: East
Lead: spade4
  1. spadeK 8 4
  2. heartA 10 8 6 2
  3. diamond9 8
  4. clubQ J 3
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1heart Pass 2diamond Pass
2spade Pass 3diamond Pass
3NT Pass 5diamond Pass
6diamond End
To rise with the ace to guard against spades being 6-1 would sacrifice a significant % of your available options, so you play low and North wins with spadeQ to return a heart. You ruff, cross to diamondA, ruff another heart, draw trumps throwing a spade and cross to clubA to ruff a third heart. Back to clubK, ruff a fourth heart to get the disappointing news of no ace appearing. Never mind, just run the rest of the trumps and see what happens at trick eleven. Knowing that heartK is not going to become a winner, you throw that from dummy and you are rewarded when South's spadeK appears at trick twelve. A classic show up squeeze. + 1370.

In the other room heartA was led - an easy-peasy +1390.
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