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Someone once said that you should never put an eight
card suit down on the table! In other words, suits
like that should be trump! Someone else should have
said to be careful about doubling the opponents when
you have a fit for both of partner's suits and no
natural trump tricks.
In this case, you can overcome that eight card side
suit on the table, but you have to play carefully.
Ruff the heart in dummy and play the ace and queen of diamonds. Assuming
diamonds are 2-2 which is very likely on the bidding, you will ruff East's
 K (you can
even afford to ruff it high) and play a spade to the ten.
And now for the parade. Play high diamonds through
East. When East ruffs, overruff with the ace, return
to dummy to draw East's last two trump and run the
diamonds. You actually make an overtrick even though
spades were 4-1.
What if West has two spades? West will ruff the third diamond and force
dummy with a club reducing dummy to the blank  K
while you remain with the A3
and East remains with two small spades. Continue with the parade of high
diamonds. When East ruffs, you overruff with the ace, enter dummy with
the K and take
the balance.
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K
K J 10 4
2
A Q J 10 9 7 6 5
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