Not Balanced All Round

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Dealer: West
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: Pairs
  1. spade10 9 7 5 2
  2. heartK Q 3
  3. diamondK Q 6
  4. clubA J
  1. spadeA J 4
  2. heartA J 7 4
  3. diamondA
  4. clubK Q 10 3 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N - 3 - - -
S - 3 - - -
E 1 - 3 3 -
W 1 - 3 3 -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeK Q 8 6 3
  2. heart10 9 6 5 2
  3. diamondJ 7
  4. club8

Contract: 4heart
Declarer: West
Lead: spade2
  1. spade—
  2. heart8
  3. diamond10 9 8 5 4 3 2
  4. club9 7 6 5 4
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
2NT Pass 4diamond* Pass
4heart Pass Pass Pass

* both majors

In fact North led spade2 as a suit preference signal, and after South had ruffed the spade a club was returned to North's ace. There was no second ruff from South so the trumps situation was clear to declarer, but because dummy's hearts could not be reduced by ruffing clubs without North ruffing in high, there was no trump end-play to avoid two trump losers. 4heart was light and South's judgement had been vindicated.

What if South had reopened with 4NT?.....
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