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North ♠ 8763 ♥A743 ♦72 ♣AQ3 |
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West ♠5 ♥ QJ953 ♦ Q1054 ♣1087
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East ♠KQJ1092 ♥10 ♦J96 ♣ J96
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South ♠A4 ♥K86 ♦AK83 ♣K542
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Dealer: East Vul: Neither |
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N |
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DBL |
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3♥ |
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4♣ |
P |
5♣ |
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P |
P |
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| Opening lead: 5♠ |
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South must win the ♠A, take two top trumps in dummy, cash the ♦AK and ruff a diamond, return to hand with the heart king, and draw the last round of trump (they break). Now a spade play puts East on lead with nothing but spades left (if East ducks the spade, declarer has 11 tricks). When East plays another spade, South discards a heart from hand. Now the next spade from East can be ruffed by South and West is squeezed, having to give declarer the game-going trick in one of the red suits.
No other way of rectifying the count for the squeeze will work. Ducking a heart to West before trumps are drawn allows East to get a heart ruff. Ducking a heart to West after trumps are drawn — which means after the diamond ruff — allows West to cash the fourth diamond or play a heart, eliminating the last entry to dummy.
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