Easy Way Or the Hard Way

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Dealer: South
Vuln: Love All
Scoring:

  1. spadeJ 9 5 2
  2. heart10 9 7 6 5
  3. diamond9 7 2
  4. club9
  1. spadeK 10 7 6 4
  2. heart—
  3. diamondJ 4
  4. clubA 10 5 4 3 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - 3 - -
S - - 3 - -
E 5 3 - 2 2
W 5 3 - 2 2
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA
  2. heartK J 2
  3. diamondK 10 8 6 5 3
  4. clubK Q 6
  1. spadeQ 8 3
  2. heartA Q 8 4 3
  3. diamondA Q
  4. clubJ 8 7
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1heart
3club* 3heart 5club Dble
Pass Pass Pass

*Ghestem, black two suiter

A naive West was seduced by the prospect of spade ruffs in dummy and eventually went two light. With the prospect of late entries to dummy within the trump suit, surely a better line is to establish the diamonds. So, ruff the heart and run diamondJ losing to South who switches to a spade (best). Declarer wins spadeA, and plays diamondK from the dummy. Whatever South does declarer will be able to draw trumps ending in dummy and enjoy the rest of the diamonds.
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