[Not] Managing entries

Let's try posting a hand... For starters, nothing here on this blog will be a revelation to anyone who knows anything... But they're revelations to me!

Playing a pickup on game on BBO, you sit West. Pard is a self-described advanced player. North is a known, solid, genuine expert parding with a known, solid advanced South. In other words, I'm screwed...

Dealer E Vul E/W Scoring - Lead	♠ J752 ♥ QT9 ♦ Q732 ♣ K4
♠ Q94 ♥ K3 ♦ J4 ♣ JT9752		♠ AK63 ♥ QJ742 ♦ A5 ♣ 63
	♠ T8 ♥ 865 ♦ KT986 ♣ AQ8

West	North	East	South
		1♥	p
1NT	p	2♠	p
3♣	p	3NT	p
p	p

East's 2♠ bid is alerted to N/S as natural rather than a reverse. Of course, I didn't know that when I bid my 3♣. On a 17 pt reverse, I figured we were approaching game and with any ♣ honors in E's hand I figured we were golden.

The lead was the ♠2. My plan was to win the lead and establish clubs. I'm not sure that was the right plan, but it was my plan. The problem is that I won the opening lead in hand with the ♠Q. I started to run clubs, but then realized that I would eventually get pinned in dummy and not be able to run any of the clubs I had originally wanted to establish. Given the line I chose, I should win trick 1 in dummy and then push clubs from that side.

Once I realized that I was pinned, I used the ♥K as an entry to hand and took the finessed the ♥Q in N. Thankfully, hearts broke and the next heart picked up the suit.

Lesson learned: Especially when establishing a long suit, make sure you maintain entries to that hand to actually use the tricks you worked so hard to establish.