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It does not take any great skill to realise that a wheel has come off the defensive machine. North surely cannot have Q to go with his ace so you happily rise with K and discard 9 as South follows with 4. What do you do when South plays low on the club lead from dummy? Although South has shown no high cards whatsoever, his hand is virtually an open book:- marked with Q and surely AQ at this vulnerability, so there can be no room for K in his hand and it must be right to finesse 10 hoping that South has the jack. Sure enough, that is +400. What was North thinking of? He proceeded to tick his partner off for playing a card that looked "too much like a singleton!" Well, should South have dropped 4?
And what if West had overcalled 3 originally ....?
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