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Dealer: North
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: Aggregate
  1. spadeQ 9 7 4
  2. heart9 7 2
  3. diamondK 5
  4. clubA Q J 4
  1. spade10
  2. heartQ 10 5 3
  3. diamondA 9 8 3
  4. club8 7 5 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N - 3 - 3 -
S - 3 - 3 -
E 4 - 5 - 1
W 4 - 4 - 1
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA 8
  2. heartA K J 6 4
  3. diamond2
  4. clubK 10 9 6 3

Contract: 4spadex
Declarer: South
Lead: heart3
  1. spadeK J 6 5 3 2
  2. heart8
  3. diamondQ J 10 7 6 4
  4. club—
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1club 1heart 1spade
3heart 3spade 4heart 4spade
Pass Pass Dble Pass
Pass Pass
I hope that you won with the ace and continued diamonds! At the table West switched to a club and that was 590 to North-South to go with the 300 from 5spade doubled in the other room.

31/03/2026: After reading this again, I think West made a bad error by not making the classic lead in this sort of situation. Lead the highest card in your agreed suit (in this case heartQ ) to retain the lead to see partner's signal. When East takes charge by overtaking and switching to diamond2, it makes it much cleaer what West's continuation should be. Agree?
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