[jschafer]

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♦6-T-A-2
♥K-A-2-5
♦7-K-8-3
♥3-7-6-T

Then contract was pretty easy to make at this stage. Anyone to blame?

[robertb]

Without thinking about it too much, it seems to me that the contract is hard to beat on any normal line of defense...I mean, leading a spade from that holding isn't very normal.

The heart return doesn't work out well, but on the auction it seems reasonable, and I think it can be made on every return at this point anyway (although a spade return does force an instant guess). So I would assign no blame at all.