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Also, a winning spade finesse does not help if East has three spades.
When this won, he took a winning spade finesse and made nine tricks.
South was able to ruff and dispose of his heart loser on a winning spade in dummy.
On the face of it, barring a 4-0 trump split, the slam needed a winning spade finesse.
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West overruffed with his heart eight, but the dummy was now high with three winning spades and the last trump.
East wins with his king and plays another diamond, but South ruffs, trumps a spade with dummy's heart ace, leads the last trump to his queen and plays winning spades, still having one trump left in his hand.
South won on the board and played a spade, winning three spades, two diamonds and three clubs for a tie board.
So he ducked the opening spade lead, won the spade continuation and led the club seven.
At the fourth trick, after winning the spade jack, he led a sneaky diamond three.
The obvious play was to lead a heart to the queen after winning the spade king.
Now Sutherlin made his contract, winning two spades, two diamonds and five clubs.
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