The Choice of Contract is Yours

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Dealer: East
Vuln: E-W
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade7 6
  2. heartA Q 10 8 6 3
  3. diamond8 7 4 2
  4. club6
  1. spade5 4 2
  2. heart2
  3. diamondA K 10 6
  4. clubA Q 10 4 3
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - 1 - -
S - - 1 - -
E 6 4 - 4 1
W 6 4 - 4 1
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA K J 8
  2. heart9 5 4
  3. diamondQ 5
  4. club9 7 5 2

Contract: 5club
Declarer: West
Lead: spade7
  1. spadeQ 10 9 3
  2. heartK J 7
  3. diamondJ 9 3
  4. clubK J 8
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass Pass
1club Pass 1spade Pass
2spade Pass 3club Pass
3diamond Pass 5club Pass
Pass Pass
The play in 5club is more straightforward. Declarer won spadeK, finessed clubQ and exited with a heart to maintain communications. On the spade continuation he rose with the king and played a trump to the ace. When spadeQ failed to come down and the trumps refused to break West reverted to plan C by playing a diamond to the queen and finessing diamond10. These heroics were unnecessary when diamondJ dropped anyway, for there was plenty of time to ditch dummy's losing spades and ruff spade5 in dummy.

So 5club is OK ...... and 4spade?
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