	NORTH A54 A95 73 J9753
932 JT72 Q94 AKT		T7 KQ863 65 Q864
	KQJ86 4 AKJT82 2

Dealer: North Vul: Both MP Scoring

West

Pass
Pass
Pass

North
Pass
1N
2N
Pass

East
Pass
Pass
Pass
Pass

South
1
2
4

Ruffing Good Diamonds/Spurning A Finesse

This board rotated to make declarer South: original board number: 10

North, with a maximum 1N (6 to 10, no 4 card major) might have done better at 2nd turn to respond 3

with the two aces and maximum spade length.
Perhaps 3

is better reserved for maximums with instead heart shortness (inverted minors).

West cashed a club and continued

J.
There were many ways to play diamonds.
On 3:2 divisions of both diamonds and trump, a certain path to victory would be to cash two top diamonds and ruff high a 3rd round here and then draw trump.
Somehow the idea that 3:2 divisions of two suits would be less than even odds 67.8% x 67.8% tempted declarer to cash a top diamond, play three rounds of trump ending in dummy and finesse a diamond.

Declarer made 5, not a good result on at least the layout.


  10>   4.75  5.92        1.83  1.83  1.83  1.83      
         680  1430   ----  650   650   650   650   ----