Yogi Berra said, “You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.”

Look at the North hand in today’s diagram. It has 6-4 distribution. After opening one heart and hearing partner respond one spade, would you rebid two diamonds or two hearts?

Some columnists recommend that with a minimum 6-4, you bid the six-card suit twice, then (if there is another round) show the four-card suit. But with extra values, you bid six, four, six.

This is definitely wrong with six spades and four hearts; show those majors.

At least rebidding the six-card suit limits the hand to 12-14 points, when rebidding in a new suit shows some 12-17 points. But it risks missing a much better fit in the second suit.

In this auction, South should have passed out two hearts. His two-no-trump rebid promised a maximum pass. True, North might have continued with three diamonds, backing into the best contract. Two hearts and three diamonds would surely have made. Two no-trump was another story.

West led his fourth-highest club, East put in the nine, and South won with his king. Now declarer should have started to establish dummy’s heart suit. With East holding the spade ace, the contract could have been made. But South erred by finessing dummy’s diamond jack and running that suit, ending in his hand. Then he led the spade king to East’s ace. The play continued: heart to the ace, club to the queen and ace, two more clubs, heart to East’s king, spade to South’s queen, and a spade to West for down two.