Potential For A Huge Turnover

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Dealer: East
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeJ 5 4
  2. heartA 9 7 5
  3. diamond—
  4. clubA J 8 7 5 4
  1. spadeK 8 2
  2. heartK Q 3 2
  3. diamondA J 8 7
  4. club10 6
club diamond heart spade NT
N 6 - 2 - -
S 6 - 1 - -
E - 2 - 4 -
W - 2 - 5 -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA Q 10 9 7 6 3
  2. heart10 6
  3. diamondQ 6 5 2
  4. club—

Contract: 6clubx
Declarer: North
Lead: spadeA
  1. spade—
  2. heartJ 8 4
  3. diamondK 10 9 4 3
  4. clubK Q 9 3 2
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
4spade 4NT
5spade 6club Pass Pass
Dble End
This is a job for the elegance of the intra-finesse. This involves leading a small heart towards dummy, finessing heart8 and later leading heartJ to pin the doubleton ten offside. The alternative of finding a singleton honour with West is a non starter after East's pre-empt. All this is hypothetical - I doubt many Souths would enter the bidding at tthis vulnerability and the most likely result is eleven tricks in spades to East-West - a huge potential turnover.
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