Declarer Gets Everything Right Against Me

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Dealer: South
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA J 4 2
  2. heartJ 7 6 4
  3. diamondA 9 8 3
  4. club2
  1. spadeQ 10 5 3
  2. heartK 8 5 2
  3. diamond7 6 4 2
  4. clubQ
club diamond heart spade NT
N 2 4 2 2 3
S 2 4 2 2 3
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeK 8 7
  2. heart10 9 3
  3. diamondQ
  4. clubA 10 8 6 4 3

Contract: 3NT
Declarer: South
Lead: heart2
  1. spade9 6
  2. heartA Q
  3. diamondK J 10 5
  4. clubK J 9 7 5
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1club
Pass 1spade Pass 2NT*
Pass 3NT Pass Pass
Pass

* !!!

Declarer led a club to the king and a second singleton queen appeared! heartA was cashed and spade6 was ducked to East, effectively end-playing him. Although East exited with spade8 (best), with West known to be 4-4-4-1 declarer had no problems reading the situation correctly.

Play at the other table began in the same way, but at trick three declarer chose to play a club to the jack. On winning with the queen West switched unerringly to spade10 and declarer was finished.
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