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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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