A few days after I witnessed this hand, I came across this one:

	K 8 6 4
	A K Q
	A 5 4
	A 6 4
9 7 3		10 5
6		10 4 3 2
Q 10 9 7 6 3		K J 8 2
10 9 2		K 8 3
	A Q J 2
	J 9 8 7 5
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	Q J 7 5

It should be apparent that both six spades and six hearts are cold. Just draw your trump and cash your top winners. As the cards lie, it doesn't matter if you take the club hook or play to the ace and back to the Q J. So it was a little disturbing to note how many declarers were down in their major suit slams. There are no bad splits, only one finesse to take -- or not to take, as you choose. But I can tell you that those who went down got fancy about postponing the drawing of trump and so paid the penalty. But why? There's just no reason for that here, nothing this can do for you and a lot it can do against you.

Some people were in no trump, which obviously makes on any lead but a diamond, for a near top board, and won't make on a diamond lead, for a poor board. Top board, however, went to the declarer who bid and made seven spades! Now, how did he do that? I've discussed this hand under signalling. (East sluffed the 8 of clubs, evidentally a signal about the K and then ducked the finesse!)

You might also note that potential advantage of the balanced(q.v.) spade suit over the heart. Since the club hook is off, it doesn't matter which suit you're in. But declarer is only a finesse away from having grand slam in spades. Well, that's a little misleading. He does need the 3-2 spades and hearts no worse than 4-1, which is what we've got. But given that, he can make grand slam in spades on a successful club hook, whereas he would have no chance in hearts. Even if the finesse were on (in hearts), he'd still have a club loser. (Well, okay, a stiff king of clubs would do it). This is consistent with my statement under The Advanatage of Balanced Suits over the unbalanced that there won't always be an advantage, but if there is an advantage to one suit or the other, it will almost surely lie with naming the balanced suit trump.

I make one last demurral and reiterate that there are a number of reasons for not drawing trump immediately. But unless you're looking at one, i.e., unless you can say, "I'd better not draw trump yet for this reason . ..", you'd probably do well to get to the task of getting the opponents' trump out.