Find That Lead - Scores Some Points

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Dealer: East
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: Aggregate
  1. spadeK 10 8 3
  2. heartA 7 2
  3. diamondQ
  4. clubA 10 7 6 2
  1. spadeA 2
  2. heartK J 10 9 6 5 4 3
  3. diamond4 3
  4. clubK
club diamond heart spade NT
N 4 1 - 3 -
S 4 1 - 3 -
E - - 3 - -
W - - 3 - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeQ 9 6 5
  2. heart8
  3. diamondA J 10 7 6
  4. club8 5 4

Contract: 4heart
Declarer: West
Lead: diamondQ
  1. spadeJ 7 4
  2. heartQ
  3. diamondK 9 8 5 2
  4. clubQ J 9 3
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass Pass
4heart Pass Pass Pass
Your ace? I'm sure that you ducked this! Declarer is unlikely to be missing heartAQJ and must therefore have eight hearts, so Roy reasoned that it would be helpful to see a signal from partner and duly ducked. Winning declarer's continuation of the nine with heartA he was able to see partner's spade4. Mmmm - not very encouraging! Placing spadeA with declarer, Roy contemplated underleading clubA before resigning himself to abandoning hopes of diamond ruff and continued with the practical course of cashing clubA. When clubQ from South was followed by declarer's king, the club continuation left declarer without hope. After ruffing and cashing five more trumps, declarer could not end-play either defender and eventually lost to spadeK.
This produced +100 for N-S and a swing of 720 when 4heart slipped through in the other room.
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