Match Point Maximisation

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Dealer: North
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: Pairs
  1. spade9 4 3
  2. heart5
  3. diamondA K 9 5 3
  4. clubA K Q 9
  1. spadeQ 8 6
  2. heartQ J 7 4 3
  3. diamond6 4
  4. club8 5 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N 4 4 - - 1
S 4 3 - - 1
E - - 1 - -
W - - 1 - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA K J 7 5
  2. heartK 8 6
  3. diamondQ 10 8
  4. club10 7

Contract: 2spade
Declarer: East
Lead: diamond2
  1. spade10 2
  2. heartA 10 9 2
  3. diamondJ 7 2
  4. clubJ 6 4 3
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1diamond 1spade Dble*
2spade Pass Pass Pass

* negative

North read South's diamondJ as a suit preference for hearts, but before switching to a heart North carefully cashed clubQ to show South the way forward, and only then did North lead a heart. South won with the ace and returned heart2 to confirm that a club return was OK, so now North underled his club honours for South to win the jack and give North a second heart ruff.

North-South have a straightforward ten tricks in either minor, so the importance of the second undertrick was the difference between a big score and a lousy one.
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