Playing in a 5-3 Fit rather than a 4-4 Fit

Check out the post from yesterday first.
http://heidisbridgeblog.blogspot.ca/2016/10/playing-in-4-4-heart-fit.html

Contract is 6♠
Lead is the A♣

It really helps to understand how to play a hand if you actually play it out. Grab a deck of cards and play along rather than just reading about it. See if you can figure out how to make this contract on your own first.

Dummy
♠KQ8
♥AK53
♦9652
♣J8

Declarer:
♠AJT54
♥QJ72
♦AK4
♣6

So I have arrived in a contract of 6♠.

Dummy is quite nice. Since it is a trump contract I need to count my LOSERS. I can count losers from either hand. Normally I would do the hand with the longest trump so I think I'll count the losers in my hand.

♠0 losers
♥0 losers
♦1 loser
♣1 loser

Hmmmm. I have to figure out how to get rid of my losing ♦. Any ideas? Let's see how this plays out.

The opponents start by winning the A♣. Then they switch to a low ♦. I'm not allowed to lose ANY more tricks so I must win my A♦.

Now I take out trump. Luckily they split nicely. One opponent had two trump and the other had three trump. Now what?

Dummy
♠
♥AK53
♦965
♣J

Declarer:
♠JT
♥QJ72
♦K4
♣

Any idea how to get rid of that ♦ loser yet? Hmmmm. Let's play a few more tricks.

That ♥ suit is good. How about I play on that suit. They are all winner's so I just play them out. Here's what I have now:

♠
♥
♦965
♣J

Declarer:
♠JT
♥
♦K4
♣

My K♦ will win a trick BUT I still need to lose a ♦. I did NOT get rid of my loser.

Here are the four hands.

	Dummy ♠KQ8 ♥AK53 ♦9652 ♣J8
LHO ♠73 ♥86 ♦T873 ♣AK543		RHO ♠962 ♥T94 ♦QJ ♣QT972
	Declarer ♠AJT54 ♥QJ72 ♦AK4 ♣6

What's up with this? I played the same hand yesterday and took 12 tricks with ♥ as trump. This time I only took 11 tricks with ♠ as trump. What was the big difference? Why did I take one more trick with ♥ as trump?