West led a heart. Brekka took dummy’s 
A and played the 
A (discarding a heart), club ruff, diamond to the 
Q and another club ruff. He then played high diamonds (discarding a heart from dummy on the third round) and, on the last one, West wrongly elected to discard a heart, so dummy’s last heart was thrown. Declarer trumped a heart, then a club (trumping low) to reach this position:
On the J, West had no adequate answer. If he trumped high, Brekka would overtrump, then finesse the 
J (or even trump the club). If he trumped low, dummy over-ruffs, and declarer makes the last two tricks on a high cross-ruff. With a trump loser and the heart finesse failing, he had made all 13 tricks!
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