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Contract 4
Lead : K
  Cards
     

            xxx            
            Axxx            
            xxx            
            AKx            
x
Q109x
KQJx
xxxx
          NSEW           QJ109
Jxx
108x
xxx
                         
            AKxxx            
            Kx            
            Axx            
            QJX            
Against 4 West leads K. Declarer cashes A-K, discovering the bad break. It seems declarer must lose 2 trumps and 2 diamonds but it is an illusion.
Declarer plays 3 rounds of hearts ruffing in hand and then cashes 3 clubs ending in dummy bringing his total tricks to 9 and plays the last heart. What can East do? If he ruffs south discards a diamond and perforce scores one of his trumps and if east dosen't ruff south scores a trump "en passant"
!Well played!


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