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Dealer: South
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: Pairs
  1. spade7 5
  2. heart10 8 6 4
  3. diamondQ 9 5
  4. clubJ 10 5 3
Green square in centre
  1. spade—
  2. heartK 5 3
  3. diamondA K 4 2
  4. clubA K Q 8 6 4

Contract: 5club
Declarer: East
Lead: spadeA
West North East South
1spade
Pass 2spade 3club 4spade
Pass Pass 4NT Pass
5club End
The possible choices are double - your flexible friend, 4NT to play in either minor, or a plain 5club. I think a bidding challenge panel would be split, with the double coming top. 4spade doubled or any five level contract is still theoretically possible - depending on West's distribution, but I still slightly favour 4NT on the East cards. West should only bid diamonds if he strongly prefers them - after all he knows East must have at least six clubs.

At the table East made the somewhat unwise and unilateral bid of 5club and South led spadeA. How would you play?
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