An interested bystander

I was a relatively passive participant in the deal shown below, which occurred at a recent club Swiss.  My three teammates all performed extremely well to earn 11 imps (and 4 VPs). 



I made the obligatory lead of the ♥A and was pleased to see dummy and partner's 2 (encouraging). I cashed the T and then the 8 and Vincent again played low.  Whoa!  What's going on?  I was pretty sure he'd played up the line (2, 4, 5) so it looked like he wanted a club.  But I thought I should double-check.  It seemed unlikely (!) that he would want a spade shift so now it was simply a question of guessing East's solid minor.  Hmm, let me see.  I made the brilliant deduction that it was diamonds and therefore led the ♣T.  This was covered and Vincent claimed the next five tricks for down four (+400).

There was a little more action at the other table (I may not have the details exactly right).



Our teammates didn't take long to take three tricks so we were +100 at that table for a nice 11 imp gain. Notice that, had our teammates not taken the push over 4♥, we would have lost 1 imp. And if Vincent hadn't defended very carefully to ensure all of our eight tricks, we would have lost another 2 imps. So, I give full credit to my three teammates – recognizing my own role as pretty much an interested bystander.