You have a look and lead your Spade Ace and then what next ?

 If you are careless on this hand declarer could prevail and get home, so you need to be diligent at tricks 1 2 and even 3.

With such a good hand it is best to lead your Spade Ace and see what is going on. If you do that you will also see if partner might encourage trick 1.

As it happens after the first trick partner plays low and you are still none the wiser. Playing a second Spade trick could be fatal. So what now. The only way to find out is to keep cashing Aces until your partner encourages. When you play the Club Ace partner plays the 3 so you stop playing Clubs. If you now play the Diamond Ace (or for that matter any Diamond) partner will encourage and now you can indeed take your 7 defensive tricks by way of 2 Spades, 4 Diamonds and 1 Club.

You can also watch the following movie to see how the hand pans out. To view this programme you will need  to download htttp://www.haroldschogger.com/bridgevu.setup

  alternatively watch the film www.haroldschogger.com/movies2.htm

Have you tried ATVing yet ?