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Pairs indeed! A better-than-average, clued-up pairs player, who will notice that 4 is likely to be much better than 3NT on a heart lead, will draw three immediate rounds of trumps and play on clubs. That leads to ten tricks when North can ruff a club. But what would you call a player who makes the elegant safety/loser-on-loser variation of a low heart at trick three . and yet makes eleven tricks for a top?
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