This is very easy hand provided you don’t take any silly finesses and you delay drawing trumps.

 (By the way North’s 5§ bid confirming a holding of all four Aces is very rare indeed).

At trick one you can count 11 tricks – 5 trumps, 2 Hearts, 3 diamonds and 1 Club.

 You can easily generate 2 extra tricks by ruffing Hearts in dummy (the short hand) before drawing trumps.

So at trick one you reject the club finesse as you do not need it. You win first trick in dummy and play Ace and another heart which you ruff. (Plenty of time to enjoy the King later. You now go back to dummy with a trump in order to ruff a second Heart with your penultimate trump. You now ruff a second Heart using up your last trump. Now it’s just a matter of getting back to dummy with a high Diamond in order to draw the last trump. After this, you merely cash out all your remaining winners bringing home this easy contract from 5 trumps, 2 Hearts, 2 Hearts ruffed in the short hand, 3 Diamonds and 1 club.

You can also watch the following movie to see how the hand pans out. To view this programme you will need  to download htttp://www.haroldschogger.com/bridgevu.setup

  alternatively watch the film www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm

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