In this deal from the Roth Open Swiss Teams at the 2025 Summer Nationals, Stefano Tommasini, South, bid two no-trump over North’s reopening double. This was Lebensohl, showing any weak hand. North reasonably tried for game regardless, on the strength of his clubs. He cue-bid three spades to ask for a stopper and Tommasini’s three no-trump ended the auction.
South ducked the first spade trick and won the second, trusting that East had six spades for both his overcall and West’s opening lead of the six. If that card was from three, it would have to be H-x-x, leaving East with H-x-x-x-x — not a weak jump overcall for many.
Now declarer was at a crossroads. If the clubs were coming in, declarer would have to guess whether to take a diamond finesse or lead a heart to the king. However, if the clubs were not friendly, declarer needed both the diamond king and heart ace onside, so he finessed the diamond jack at trick three. Then came the club ace, king and queen, East showing out, and a fourth round to West, who had to concede a ninth trick in one of the red suits.
In the other room, South ducked two spade tricks. A heart shift now would have sunk the contract, but even when East continued spades, declarer had to weaken the dummy with a discard. Declarer reasonably discarded a diamond and then played clubs from the top rather than finessing. West scored the club jack and two more red-suit tricks, for one down.