Good Lead Bad Continuation

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Dealer: North
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA K
  2. heartA 4 2
  3. diamondA 9 5
  4. clubA 9 8 6 2
  1. spadeJ 9 8 5 3 2
  2. heart10 6
  3. diamondK Q 4 2
  4. club5
club diamond heart spade NT
N 4 1 5 1 4
S 4 1 5 1 4
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeQ 7
  2. heart8 7 5
  3. diamond10 8 7 3
  4. clubQ J 10 3

Contract: 6heart
Declarer: South
Lead: diamondK
  1. spade10 6 4
  2. heartK Q J 9 3
  3. diamondJ 6
  4. clubK 7 4
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1club* Pass 1heart
2spade~ Pass 3spade Pass
Pass 4spade Pass 6heart
Pass Pass Pass

* 16+
~ weak

Declarer ducked the opening lead and West switched to a spade. After two spade winners South crossed to hand with heartK and ruffed a spade high. After declining to finesse heart9 to guard against a hypothetical heart10xxx with East, South drew four rounds of trumps. When declarer's final trump was played a club thrown from dummy and East was caught in a guard squeeze - unable to keep two diamonds and three clubs. When eventually diamond8 was selected, South led diamondJ to pin East's ten and establish diamond9 as the vital twelfth trick........
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