What Would You Have Decided

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Dealer: South
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade—
  2. heartK 10 9 2
  3. diamondQ J 4 2
  4. clubK Q 7 6 4
  1. spadeA K 9 7 5
  2. heart4
  3. diamondA 8 7
  4. clubA 9 8 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N 1 - 5 - -
S 1 - 5 - -
E - 4 - 2 1
W - 4 - 2 1
Green square in centre
  1. spade6 4 2
  2. heartA 7
  3. diamondK 10 9 6 5 3
  4. club10 3

Contract: 4spadex
Declarer: West
Lead: heart2
  1. spadeQ J 10 8 3
  2. heartQ J 8 6 5 3
  3. diamond—
  4. clubJ 5
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass
1spade* Dble 2spade 4heart
4spade Pass Pass Dble
Pass Pass Pass

* five cards minimum

Just checking - any heart will do! Declarer wins in the dummy with the ace and ducks a club to your queen. West ruffs the heart continuation and plays ace and another club, ruffed by dummy and over-ruffed. Seeing that a heart would be ruffed in dummy, South switched to spadeQ, won by West's ace. Another club was ruffed and overruffed, and West won the spade continuation. Back in control, West lost merely one more trump and a diamond for minus 300. This was a good board ..
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