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The two elegant winning lines involve cross to the A and ruffing a fourth club. If South follows then he would be likely to be 0-7-2-4 or 0-8-1-4, so declarer can cash K and exit with K to end-play South .. always assuming that South has A of course! An alternative possibility is to exit with K immediately after ruffing the fourth club. This will gain when South has started with 10x, for declarer will simply cover South's 10 exit to smother North's queen. In theory this line also works when South starts with Qxx in a 0-7-3-3 shape, but it's a guess for declarer on which diamond to play from dummy.

At the table our unlucky hero East did play South for the 0-7-3-3 shape by simply taking a diamond finesse, so Steve and his partner were met by crestfallen team-mates, but not to worry .
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