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If you played low from table at trick one, you have just made your contract. You only need one finesse out of the three on offer, and since the Q is going to be wrong on the lead, you should take the fourth option, namely the deep finesse of the 7. Another good reason for this is that, as far as I can see, you are going to need the 109 to be in the West hand for any squeeze to operate against him, so you may as well finesse them at trick 1. But for our story to proceed, we need to follow South's play of J, covered by the queen and ace. This does at least have the merit of transferring the heart menace to West, and so South's dreams of glory by some abstruse squeeze now might come to fruition!
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