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Did you spot the fact that if the king of hearts is offside, you are going to be tapped out of trumps before you can set up a tenth trick in clubs?

If you finesse hearts again, losing to the king, West plays a second spade, tapping you down to two trumps. After drawing the last trump, you have only one trump left, but need to lead clubs twice.

The correct line after the 9 of hearts wins is to lead a heart to the ace! If trumps are 3-2, you don't care where the king is. You just go about your business of leading clubs, setting up a club trick while you still have control. And if East held four hearts to the king, you probably had no chance anyway.

Notice that West could have won the first round of hearts and led another spade. But then you would ruff and attack clubs before pulling trumps. With clubs 3-3, there's nothing they could do to you.

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