A common defensive theme that I really hate.
Basically declarer steals a heart trick and it's all over. The lead was a 4th best diamond, I cashed the king and ace. At this point I shifted to a trump, trying not to give anything away.
How can west know to fly the ace? Am I supposed to lead back the HQ at T3?
Oh yeah, declarer also misplayed and let me in when I could've just led a third trump and beaten it. Then, I followed suit and misplayed by not leading it. But never mind, let's assume declarer ruffs two diamonds before the defense can draw trumps.
Thinking about it now, I guess there's no real reason to duck the ace. The reason we duck aces is because we don't want to grant declarer extra tricks in the suit. But in this case, we have no slow club tricks that we can pick up. Dummy has KQx of clubs, so the extra heart tricks that we may be allowing declarer won't help him.
It just feels like an automatic play to duck the ace.
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your only defense is to duck the heart.
Leading the Queen of hearts at trick 3 certainly lets partner know that there's nothing to be gained by ducking.
Oh, I forgot to play the A then K of diamonds, showing a doubleton. That would help.
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