Great Story - Shame About the Ending

Dealer: East
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs

  1. spadeK J 8 6 4
  2. heartA K Q J 8 3
  3. diamond8
  4. clubQ
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA 9 5 3
  2. heart10
  3. diamondA K 10 5 2
  4. clubA J 10

Contract: 7heart
Declarer: West
Lead: club4

West North East South
1diamond Pass
1heart Pass 1spade Pass
4NT Pass 5spade* Pass
5NT~ Pass 6spade# Pass
7heart End

* three aces
~ how good are your trumps?
# Axxx

No finessing heroics required here. Nick rose with clubA, cashed diamondA, ruffed a low diamond with heart8 - no diamond honour appearing, Returning to dummy's heart10, declarer ruffed another diamond to see that they had broken 4-3. He continued with the process of drawing trumps, South had four and North two, throwing a club and two spades from dummy. After crossing to dummy with spadeA he cashed the two winning diamonds ...
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