From the Swiss team game today, this was one hand of particular
interest to me. 7C is virtually cold but it's awfully hard to get
there after it's 2H-P-3H to me. I just bid 3NT and that ended the
bidding. In NT there are only 11 tricks but sans heart lead I was
able to squeeze lho for a 12th trick.
Txxx
x
xx
AJxxxx
AK
ATx
AK7x
KTxx
Lho, not unreasonably fearful of leading into my AQ, started with a spade. I started by ducking a diamond. Unfortunately for them, I was able to cash all my winners except diamonds and on the last club, rho had to make dummy's spade ten good or let go of a diamond, making my 7 good to win trick 13.
This squeeze could have been broken...duck a diamond, back a diamond. RHO can throw the hearts away now. When you cross back to hand, at that point RHO can safely let go of spade.
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