Opening Lead: J

If you're ever invited to join the Procrastinator's Club, accept: You won't have to attend meetings since they'll never get around to having one, but you may learn to postpone imprudent plays at bridge.

South put up dummy's queen of clubs, and when East played the king, South won, took the A-K of spades to discard his last club, led a diamond to his ace and lost a diamond. West led another spade, and East pitched his last diamond as South ruffed.

South then took the A-K of trumps. (He feared that if he ruffed a diamond instead, East might overruff with J-x or Q-x, and West would also get a trump trick.) When West discarded, South ruffed a diamond with dummy's last trump. East overruffed and cashed a trump, but South ruffed the club return with his last trump and won the last two tricks with good diamonds, making his game.

Both East and South needed to be procrastinators. East beats the contract if he doesn't overruff the third diamond. South must ruff a spade or club in his hand next, and when he leads a good diamond at Trick 11, East ruffs, draws South's last trump and wins the setting trick with a club.

But South is safe if he takes only one high trump before ruffing a diamond in dummy. If East doesn't overruff, South returns to his hand with the other high trump and leads good diamonds, and the defense gets only two trumps and a diamond.

South may lose an overtrick if trumps break 3-2, but he protects his contract against a 4-1 trump break.