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N/S played in 3NT after W opens a weak 2H vulnerable

                                S AK109

                                H K5

                                D Q42

                                C K963

                                S 764

                                H A98

                                D A1076

                                C A85

W leads 4H.  You have 7 tricks with chances of developing tricks in all suits.  W presumably has 6 hearts so your 8H could possibly become a squeeze menace but you would need to lose four tricks to rectify the count to set up a squeeze position and it seems likely that W will get in and run hearts before you can develop a squeeze.  You duck the first trick allowing E to win with 10H.  Because E/W are vulnerable W might have opened 2H with 7 cards, but E returns 6H which you win with KH. 

Diamonds seem to offer the best chance of developing extra tricks.  W is likely to be close to her maximum 10 points for her vulnerable 2H opening bid so W is more likely than E to hold the majority of the missing honour cards.  You therefore return to hand with AC and lead 6D winning with QD.  You need to develop one more trick so at trick five you finesse 10D losing to JD.  W plays another heart; dummy discarding 6C and E discarding 3S.

W has no immediate entries to her hearts so it is safe to play a spade and finesse 9S when W plays low.  This trick loses to JS.  E plays 7C to partners QC which you must win to avoid W running her hearts.  Your ninth trick can now come from a 3/3 break in either D or S so you play 4D to your AD but E discards 10C.

You now have a perfect count.  W started with 1S, 6H, 4D and 2C so spades are not going to break.  E has the last two spades and JC.  You play AS with W discarding a heart and throw E in with the club.  He has to lead spades into dummy’s K10 so you make your contract.  The traveller shows that this is a joint top; more than half the field went down in 3NT and one E/W pair played in hearts.  The E/W cards were:

                S 2                                                          S QJ853

                H QJ7432                                              H 106

                D KJ93                                                   D 85

                C Q2                                                       C J1074

John