No Miracles Required Here

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Dealer: West
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade10 6
  2. heartA 9 8 5 2
  3. diamondJ 8 7 4
  4. club9 5
  1. spade—
  2. heartJ 6
  3. diamondQ 10 9 5 3
  4. clubQ J 8 6 3 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N - 1 4 1 2
S - 1 4 1 2
E 1 - - - -
W 1 - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeQ J 9 8 7 5
  2. heartQ 7 3
  3. diamond6 2
  4. clubA 10

Contract: 3NT
Declarer: South
Lead: club6
  1. spadeA K 4 3 2
  2. heartK 10 4
  3. diamondA K
  4. clubK 7 4
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass Pass 1spade Dble
Pass 2heart Pass 3NT
Pass Pass Pass
No miracles required here, but you must be awake. Just overtake your partner's club and return another, but when South leads a heart with the hope and intention of ducking to East, you must fly in with the jack. Although this blocking play allows South to make three heart tricks by finessing against partner's queen, three heart tricks become the limit. South now has no entry to dummy and must concede one down.
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