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South’s 2 no-trump bid successful this balancing presumption is simply a wide-ranging bid. South could person had overmuch little for the bid. North had to rise with his hand, hoping South could find 9 tricks. South had 17 points, but helium had his hands afloat with this one.

Many would screen the jack of hearts pb with dummy’s queen. South saw that helium would request a instrumentality oregon 2 from the diamond suit. If helium played the queen of hearts astatine instrumentality 1 and East had the ace of diamonds, East would triumph the ace astatine immoderate constituent and instrumentality his remaining bosom and the declaration would fail. Should West person the ace of diamonds, helium could not besides person the king of spades for his anemic 2 bid, truthful the declaration could not beryllium made immoderate South did. South decided to play debased from dummy connected the opening pb and helium besides played debased from his hand. West continued with the ace and different heart. South won with the king and led a spade to dummy’s jack. East took the king and shifted to a club. Declarer won successful manus with the ace and led a spade to dummy’s ace. A debased diamond to his king won the trick. South cashed the king of clubs, led a nine to dummy’s queen, and cashed the jack of clubs portion discarding a debased spade. A diamond toward his queen got him his ninth trick. Well played!