Two Problems In One Deal

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Dealer: East
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade4
  2. heartA 9
  3. diamondK Q J 10 7 5 3 2
  4. clubQ 6
  1. spadeA J 8 5
  2. heartK 10 8 5
  3. diamond9
  4. clubK 8 3 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N - 5 1 - 2
S - 5 1 - 5
E 3 - - 3 -
W 3 - - 3 -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeQ 10 9 7 2
  2. heartJ 3
  3. diamond4
  4. clubJ 10 9 5 4

Contract: 5spade
Declarer: West
Lead: heartA
  1. spadeK 6 3
  2. heartQ 7 6 4 2
  3. diamondA 8 6
  4. clubA 7
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
2heart* Dble~
2NT 5diamond End Pass
5spade Pass Pass Pass

* see text
~ hearts

As you can see, West must go up with clubK and crash the ace and queen by playing another. This is not an unreasonable line but I suppose it depends on whether you attribute North's defence to his holding a broken diamond suit, making it more likely that he holds clubA.

At the table West let clubJ run and went one down, so East might have convinced himself that he would have failed to find the killing club lead, and therefore minus 50 wasn't so bad really.
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