Trump Too Can Offer an Entry II

Even When there are None Outstanding II

8 4
A Q J 9 8 4
J 9 7 6 5
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K 10 5 3 J 2
6 2 K 7 3
K A Q 10 4 3
K Q J 9 8 6
A Q 9 7 6
10 5
A Q 10 4 3 Contract: 7 diamonds
K Opening lead: A of clubs

Not 20 minutes after coming another declarer who couldn't fancy using trump (when there were no more out) as an entry to dummy, given here I came across this similarly inclined declarer. The pair got just a tad overbid -- nor was it intended as a sacrifice, since the last bid by the opposiition was 6 club -- so here it was only a case of saving an undertrick. Still, the unnecessary loss of a trick must've cost something, and anyway, the reader can think of this declarer being in 5 diamonds.
Opening lead was the A of clubs, ruffed in dummy, followed by a diamond to the stiff K. (Many years ago, my partner said that a stiff K in one hand means there's a good chance of another stiff K on the hand. I've never heard anyone else adduce that thesis. Dunno.)
Anyway, West came back with a heart, declarer declining the finesse. We can see it wouldn't have worked, but one would think those bidding to such empyrean heights as 7 would look to any means to generate winners. And we might note that he has 10 diamonds and 8 hearts, and if any suit's going to have a stiff K, it's far more likely to be diamonds than hearts. Declarer followed this by drawing the last trump out, then conceding a trick to the K of hearts by a low lead from dummy. East won and led a spade, declarer . . . continued zigging when he should've zagged.
How many low spades, well, non-winners, does declarer have? The answer is 4. How many hearts does he have in dummy. The answer is 4. And how many entries does he have outside of trump? Of course he has none. How many does he have within trump?
Yikes! I didn't notice it until I looked closely, but talk about zigging when he should've zagged, this declarer had none! On the first round of trump, he ran the 9 through to the K, and then cashed the J of diamonds! (That was followed by conceding a heart trick, but that could as easily have come from the closed hand.) So this declarer play played the 4 and then the 3 on the first two rounds of trump and was looking at A Q 10 opposite 7 6 5!
So I was mistaken in thinking he could've used a trump entry and then thrown 4 spades on the hearts. He made sure he had no entry. But since the category is "Entries", I believe I'll let the hand remain where it is. (But with 10 trump and all kinds of entries back and forth originally, doncha think one would preserve one high trump in dummy?)