Would have been more interesting …

East sort of made this hand easy for me to be +490 in 3NT, but a little better defense at Trick 2 would still have allowed me to make twelve tricks. 

I opened 2NT and partner looked for a heart fit before settling in 3NT.

Fortunately for me, East did not find a diamond lead, but instead led the ♣J.

I won the ♣J in hand and led a small heart from the ace.  East rose with the ♥K and returned a diamond.  Well, if hearts split I already have twelve tricks.  More importantly, if hearts do not split, I have eleven tricks on top, the count rectified, and threats in all three non-club suits.

Reading West for the ♦K, I played a small diamond from dummy, winning the ♦A in hand.  East was discovered to own four hearts, but no matter:  with so many threat suits, a double squeeze (with spades as the pivot suit) had to work.  When I ran all my rounded suit winners (last club shown below in parentheses, my discarding a heart on the last club), East did not pitch her winning heart and West did not pitch the ♦K and so the spades must be, and were, good for the twelfth trick (see below).  Rewarding, but not really special.

Let’s go back and assume that East tested me by ducking the ♥K, allowing me to win the ♥Q at Trick 2.  How might the play go from there?

Well, if I divine the heart position, I can catch West in a strip squeeze (“squeeze without the count”).  After four clubs and two hearts, everyone is down to seven cards before I play the last club winner (shown in parentheses). 

When I lead the last club from dummy, West can discard one of his diamonds, and I can discard my last heart.  No problem.

But then I can continue four rounds of spades, throwing West into the lead while I discard dummy’s two hearts.  He must lead away from the ♦K and I earn my twelfth trick that way.

Much better blog material, but then I can write about that line as conjecture, anyway!