Difficult Hand Perplexes

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Dealer: South
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA Q 9 4
  2. heartQ J 7 3
  3. diamondA K 9 8 5
  4. club—
Green square in centre
  1. spade3
  2. heart10 6 5 2
  3. diamond10 7 4 3
  4. clubA 10 6 3

Contract: 6spade
Declarer: South
Lead: clubK
West North East South
1NT*
3club~ 4club 5club Pass
Pass 6club Pass 6spade
Pass Pass Pass

* 12-14
~ weak

Well, that's what happened at the table. South bid 6spade to end the bidding and West leads clubK. This is one of those unreal situations - having given you North's hand as a bidding problem you must now move 90 degrees clockwise to the East seat. Declarer ruffs the opening lead in dummy, cashes spadeAQ and you pitch a club. South cashes dummy's diamondA, producing the queen from West. diamond9 is led from dummy and declarer runs this when you play low ...
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