Choose Your Red Suit

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Dealer: South
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade9 6 4 3
  2. heartJ
  3. diamondQ 8
  4. clubA Q J 10 9 3
  1. spadeA K J
  2. heartA K 7
  3. diamondA K 9 6 4 2
  4. club7
club diamond heart spade NT
N 1 - - 1 -
S 1 - - 1 -
E - 6 4 - 1
W - 6 4 - 1
Green square in centre
  1. spade10 7
  2. heart10 9 6 3 2
  3. diamond10 7 3
  4. club8 6 2

Contract: 4heart
Declarer: East
Lead: club4
  1. spadeQ 8 5 2
  2. heartQ 8 5 4
  3. diamondJ 5
  4. clubK 5 4
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass
2club Pass 2diamond Pass
3diamond Pass 3heart Pass
4heart End
As the cards lay at the table, South ruffs the third round of diamonds but if South continues with another club you can still get home in the fashion described on the previous page.

Note that if you cash heartAK when the trumps are 3-2 and the diamonds are 3-1 then you would still be looking at the loss of a trump, a diamond and two clubs. Unless heartQJ is a doubleton then it's the two-two diamond break that's required on this deal, but you can cope with some of 4-1 trump breaks.

Note also that eleven tricks are trivial in diamonds and even twelve tricks are possible on this layout.
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