He ruffed the spade lead in dummy, throwing a diamond.
East led the spade king, ducked by declarer, and another spade to South's ace, dummy throwing a heart.
South won and cashed his other two tricks in the suit, dummy throwing two clubs and East another club.
East led the diamond jack, South pitched a heart, West ruffed with his spade ten, and dummy threw a club.
Instead he led a second club, and South won in dummy throwing a spade from his hand.
Declarer ran his trumps to reach this end position: On the final heart dummy threw a club, but East did not have a card to spare.
Then declarer played a trump to dummy, threw his spade king on the diamond king, ruffed a spade, crossed to dummy with a trump and ruffed a second spade, hoping for a 3-3 break.
South takes his tricks in that suit and leads to the spade queen to reach this position: The play of the heart king forces West to give up a club, with dummy throwing a spade.
Declarer drove out the diamond ace, won the club return with her queen, cashed one more round of trumps, took dummy's top spades, ruffed a spade and drew the missing trump to give this position (see Diagram 2): On the next trump West had to discard the spade jack, dummy threw a heart, and East pitched her useless club.
"If you don't like my leadership, you can go to hell," he factory-whistled, after ducking the dummies thrown his way from whining journos left out of a media briefing and critical of him bringing in his own Dr Melfi to soothe frazzled minds.
