This deal was played in a team game and at one table West routinely led the ♥K which held the trick.  Declarer ruffed the second round of Hearts and lost a trump to East’s Ace.  A Diamond was returned for West to ruff, briefly raising the defense’s hopes.  But that was all they got, and Declarer had 10 tricks.  In the post mortem West stated the obvious by pointing out that East needed to overtake the King with his ♥A at Trick 1 and shoot back a Diamond, getting the defense two ruffs and setting the contract.  Here is the full deal:

At the other table, West was made of smarter stuff.  At Trick 1 she led the Heart Two!  Unless leading “top of a sequence” it is customary to lead 4^th best from a long suit (some prefer “3^rd or 5^th”), so that Heart Two was distinctly fishy-looking, considering that West’s bidding had announced 6 or 7 Hearts.  What was West trying to say by her strange lead?  She clearly wanted a shift, probably for a ruff.  That was a great lead, but how did East correctly deduce that he should try to give West a Diamond ruff, not a Club ruff?

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