[Fluffy]

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Match points, you are south, dummy is east.

partner leads ♣2 and you win the ♣K (LHO playing the 9)

half of an intermediate field dropped a trick next, what would you do?

[dwar0123]

Shorten dummies trump by leading club ace.

All the nightmare scenarios where partner has either 5 clubs and/or a void in spades, giving declarer 5 spades and thus 5 hearts as per his preference, involve hands I would expect partner to support clubs on.

This assumes partner refused to lead a stiff spade, which makes sense if he has natural heart tricks and doesn't expect me to be able to get on lead enough times to ruff enough spades to make it worth while.

[y66]

Not a heart since pard can have KTxx. CA for me.

[gszes]

too much risk of a ruff and sluff with a club
too much risk of giving away heart position with a heart
too much risk of giving away dia position with a dia
no risk in giving up anything with a spade

ok i talked myself into it a spade.

[Fluffy]

half the field returned a heart, partner had ♥K!0xx and blowed a trick.

[ggwhiz]

Fluffy, on 2012-October-02, 01:06, said:

half the field returned a heart, partner had ♥K!0xx and blowed a trick.

That was really wrong as pard owning a 4th trump is your only chance to give them a hard time. They can pick this off anyway but a 2nd big club makes it tougher to do so.