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When West leads the diamond ten, East knows, since dummy has the nine, that it is a singleton or from a doubleton.
It seems to me that because attitude is at the top of the priority list, it should stay there unless it is clear to everybody and his goat that an attitude signal would be pointless (for example, dummy has the king-queen of hearts).
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Dummy had the ace-eight of spades and heart king.
Dummy had the king-ten of diamonds, and declarer the club seven and diamond seven.
When Hallberg was declarer, he retained the heart queen, and dummy had the 6-5.
Dummy had the king-queen-five of diamonds, and South the heart four, diamond ten and club eight.
Since dummy had the long trumps, South looked at that hand and took his own high cards into account.
Maybe dummy had the ace-queen of diamonds and this lead would talk declarer out of the winning finesse.
If he had held the diamond jack, with dummy having the queen, the slam would have been easy against any lead.
With three tricks to go, dummy had the heart five and club ten-five, and East held the heart ten and club jack-seven.
Porter House's sommelier, Beth von Benz — clearly no dummy — had the wit to get some of the Il Palazzone Brunello on her wine list.
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