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This is a matter of timing. If you continue with club winners, declarer will throw a heart loser from dummy and make his contract, so instead you should switch to a heart at trick three. Partner will cash his rightful two heart winners and switch back to clubs, when a third round will promote a trump trick for him. This will give you plus 200 and a massive pairs score. At the table West neither doubled or defended properly, but as a friend recently taunted after I had let a no-play game through, "Terence once said, You can't be faulted for failing to double if you're going to let the bloody thing through..."
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