Poor Bidding Or Poor Lead Or Poor Defence

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Dealer: North
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade
  2. heartA 8 5
  3. diamond
  4. clubA
  1. spade
  2. heart7 4
  3. diamond10
  4. clubQ
Green square in centre
  1. spade
  2. heartQ J 10
  3. diamond
  4. clubJ 6

Contract: 4spade
Declarer: South
Lead: diamondQ
  1. spade4
  2. heart6
  3. diamond
  4. club10 7
West North East South
1heart Pass 1spade
Pass 2spade Pass 3spade
Pass 4spade End
East still has to play to the ninth trick. There is no answer.

Declarer's line had allowed the dummy to retain a vital entry for the trump squeeze.

In the other room declarer took a different winning line to ten tricks.
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