Unlucky And Frustrating

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Dealer: South
Vuln: Love All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade10 9 5 3
  2. heart8
  3. diamondK 9 7 3 2
  4. club8 7 3
  1. spadeK Q 8 7 2
  2. heartK J
  3. diamondA J 10 4
  4. club9 4
club diamond heart spade NT
N 1 - - - -
S 1 - - - -
E - 3 5 6 6
W - 2 3 5 5
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA J 6 4
  2. heartA Q 9 6 3
  3. diamond6 5
  4. clubA Q

Contract: 4spade
Declarer: West
Lead: club7
  1. spade—
  2. heart10 7 5 4 2
  3. diamondQ 8
  4. clubK J 10 6 5 2
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
2heart~
2spade Pass 3heart* Pass
3spade Pass 4club Dble
4diamond Pass 4heart Pass
4spade End

* cue-bid
~ 5heart, 4+ minor, 5-9
# spade agreement

The bidding subsided in 4spade, gaining 11 IMP where it might have been the other way.

The winning bid is 6NT, and it would be even if North had both missing diamond honours!! Imagine South leads diamond8, so declarer climbs with diamondA and cashes heartKJ. When North shows out declarer simply rattles off the five spades to catch South in a strip squeeze. With clubK marked on the bidding, if South retains all the missing hearts West puts him on lead by playing ace and queen of clubs. A heart into heartAQ9 yields the contract. I'd like to be able to say that failing to bid 6NT was the worst of my perpetrations, but unfortunately not. Those more gruemsome efforts can wait for another day.
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