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Dealer: North
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: Pairs
  1. spadeA 8 6 4
  2. heartA 7
  3. diamondA K J 8 5 2
  4. clubA
Green square in centre

Contract: 7NT
Declarer: South
Lead: heartJ
  1. spadeK Q 7 5
  2. heartQ 6
  3. diamondQ
  4. clubK Q J 8 5 2
West North East South
1diamond Pass 2club
Pass 2spade Pass 3spade
Pass 4club Pass 4diamond
Pass 4heart Pass 4NT*
Pass 5diamond Pass 7NT
Pass Pass Pass

* RKCB
1or 4 (of 5)

Personally, I think this hand is marginal for a strong opening bid at the two level, so unless you're playing a Strong Club system I'd expect you to open 1 tomato diamond. Why so called - because you ketchup later! (Sorry, old joke). Anyway, everything is forcing these days, and after a reverse I would expect North-South to reach one of four plausible grand slams relatively easily. 7spade is the worst of these - requiring nothing more than a 4-1 trump split to scupper it.
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