Carry On Carrying On

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Dealer: East
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA 8 3
  2. heartA J 2
  3. diamondK Q 9 2
  4. clubQ 4 3
  1. spadeJ
  2. heart9 6 4
  3. diamondJ 7 3
  4. clubA J 10 9 6 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N - 4 6 3 4
S - 4 6 3 1
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeQ 9 5 4 2
  2. heartQ
  3. diamond10 8 5 4
  4. clubK 8 7

Contract: 5clubx
Declarer: West
Lead: club3
  1. spadeK 10 7 6
  2. heartK 10 8 7 5 3
  3. diamondA 6
  4. club5
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass 1heart
3club* Dble~ 5club Pass
Pass Dble End

* weak
~ negative (take-out)

Carry on carrying on! At the table an expert North led another low club so declarer overtook dummy's eight, South throwing a heart, to ruff a heart with clubK. When a spade went to South's seven and declarer's jack North was able to win and revert to hearts. South overtook North's heartJ and continued the suit, thereby promoting North's clubQ after all. North-South wrote down 1100 in the plus column, not as good as 1430 for rather poor 6heart, maybe. However, when 5club doubled also proved to be contract at the other table and North avoided leading trumps, declarer wriggled out for minus 800 and a gain of 7 IMPs.
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