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Dealer: West
Vuln: E-W
Scoring: Aggregate
  1. spade8 4
  2. heartK Q 7 6 5 4
  3. diamondK Q 10 7
  4. club8
  1. spadeA K 10 2
  2. heart—
  3. diamondA 6 5
  4. clubA J 5 4 3 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - 1 - -
S - - 1 - -
E 3 2 - 3 1
W 3 2 - 3 1
Green square in centre
  1. spadeQ 6 5 3
  2. heartJ 10 9 3
  3. diamond9 8 4 3
  4. clubK

Contract: 4spade
Declarer: West
Lead: heartK
  1. spadeJ 9 7
  2. heartA 8 2
  3. diamondJ 2
  4. clubQ 10 9 7 6
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1club 1heart Dble* 2heart
4spade Pass Pass Pass

* negative, showing 4 spades

The predictable heart lead has made life awkward, but you still have two possible lines available - a) establish clubs and b) a cross-ruff. The way to combine most of the chances is to ruff a heart and cash clubA. If that stands up and the queen has not appeared, ruff another club and pray. If they are 3-3 and the spades are 3-2 you can cash spadeAK and ditch one heart from dummy on clubJ before they ruff in. Although they can cash a heart, you still retain diamondA as a vital entry to the remaining clubs.

On the actual layout however ten tricks are still available when clubA is ruffed. Simply swap to the cross-ruff line! North's highly accommodating spade pips can do nothing to prevent the clubs ruffs so West makes eight trumps separately to go with clubK and diamondA. +620
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