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I dont understand why you say you missed the squeeze, you did the squeeze just didnt pay attention that your 10 of club became high. Now from the begining, the heart situation is the key , if you believe east had a sgl K of heart then after seeing 3 diamonds and two club rounds you know east exact shape to be 4135, at this point you know the squeeze will work, but also you know the finnese with the 10 of club works. The heart beeing 6-1 have been support both by east failiure to continue with heart, and also by the discards, west discarding hearts and east discarding a club. If you are not 100% sure about the heart , it still doesnt matter too much, you will make by putting the Q of club everytime east as atleast 3 spades because either spades will break or the east will be squeezed between clubs and spades, if east got only 2 spades, he must have few hearts, then if the heart Q is with him, he will again be sqeezed heart-club. if he dosent have the Q (only few small cards) then west is squeezed between hearts and spades. Anyway finnesing the club looks like a 85% play while putting the Q like 99% play. The squeezes are all automatic, all you need to do is play your A of heart and pay attantion to high cards falling from either side (like the J of club in this game)

I learn bridge with Goren's precision and wih 5-4 and 14-15 hcp we would jump. I dont think its the best strategy yet like Ben said it exsist.

I agree with what Ben said, if partner suppose to jump having 14-15 then i would have passed too.

Ben if you have a bid that show 5 card minor and 4 card major you should oviously use it. I see nothing bad in it, since partner know what you have. The main problem with bidding on non even suits is that partner will usually correct to the other suit since he will most of the time have longer suit in our shorter one. playing 6-2 is better then 4-2 but you cant expect partner not to correct, usually also 5-2 is better then 4-3. The idea mentioned before that the higher ranking suit shouldnt be the better one , is intresting, and make sense since bidding the higher ranking suit first you will many time be abl to show the lower ranking later, but if you think if the logic i showed before, there is a problem here too, because if we have a better lower ranking partner is more likely to correct it, since the correcting will be on the same bidding level. so this solution isnt too good either. There is another factor which is how contructive are we in the bidding senario, if we dont care about game and only want to disturb, then bidding a non even two suiter is less of a problem, and bidding it as a two suiter helps preventing a real disaster incase our suit is short in partner's hand, for example against 1nt it make more sense to bid 5-4 as two suiter even if the 4 card are weak.

I dont think this got much to do with hand evaluation. The possible senarios are in order of priority. 1. play a minor (probebly diamond) partscore. 2. play 1sp. 3. play higher contract in spade. (this is if partner holds 6 of them) 4. let them play heart. number 3 is what drives me into bidding 1nt. If we play 2sp and not better minor over 1nt with 5332 (uncommon) then ill pass instead.

You should try not to bid a 2 suiter bid with uneven suits, you should never bid it with 2 cards apart, like 6-4 or 7-5, with only 1 card different dont do it if the longer suit has soft values, that need work on them, for example if you have in your long suit AJxxx its fine, but if you have KQ10 or KQJ or KQ or QJ10 its not.

It was my line but i didnt post it, fluffy did. :) btw blover's line is not too bad either, but one need to see that getting 3 diamond tricks isnt ovious, because of the entry problem.

btw does anyone know where i can found Keri in english ? ( i have it in france)

I dont think this is something you should solve with statistic, You can relay on your judgment and you can also ask others especially good players for it. Also if you want to use stats then use it on book problems, 1 book problem has the value of maybe 30 real games. (although there are things you wont learn from a book)

Its not a classical combining chances problem, it has entry problems. I wonder if those who think they solved it including Ben, have the same line. I would guess they dont. Also its intresting to see if the play would change after a spade lead (with Q on RHO)

If i understand corectly,the hands Ben is posing are hands he went down, meaning its a hand even an expert can go down playing. This one im pretty sure i know the right line, but im not sure i would play it right at the table.

Seems wrong to me that there is no bid for 5332, are you sure this is how boochi duboin play it ? I think i understand now, maybe they just open 1nt and 1c-x -1nt even with 5332. I think it might be great.

This might help in case you dont have it yet. http://www.henry654.fws1.com/

You're forgetting the bidding, you miss 16 hcp and RHO opened i think there is much better chance to find the Q of club with him.

You have to post vulnarability and exact bidding (was the 2sp bidding the dealer ?)

Because Q club or K club is just the same, i only care if people think like free does, that leading the K of club is not safe enough. Imo club is better then trump, the risk of J in dummy and A in declerer arent too high, even if there is J and A this way, we are still fine if p got doublton clubs and even if not, it will only sell if declarer can trow a loser on the club (non imidite loser) . Leading spade will be bad when p has Qxx or Kjx,or KxxKQx, or QJx, or or Qxxx,Jxxx, or Kxxx (its not out of the question that they play 7 card suit, yet rare), we dont know how many entries dummy have and maybe those are needed for other tasks, also maybe we need to open the clubs before they are discarded on dummy's long suit.

10 points to paul. congrats.

Your hand is xx Axxx Axx KQ108 The bidding goes 1♠ - D - 1NT - p 3♠ -P- 4♠ all pass Some friends had an argument about this lead, they decided to ask aprofession player, and bet some money on his answer. In the meanwhile i thought i'll make a poll here. forgot to mention - scoring type is total score.

You say no line would have worked ? Hxx in west and Hx in east and K club offside ? I think here is no endplay there (if i understand right, u mean to endplay east not west as nikon said) apart from the Heart position you will need east to have exactly 3 spades and 3 diamonds, giving him honor doublton or KQx of heart will not do you any good, since he can safly lead clubs

How is this better then just running the J of heart ? ot seems to me that its both safer and will make an overtrick more times. Running heart jack can lose three heart tricks to singleton heart honor offside. Now, back comes a spade, you ruff again (your second ruff) so you are down to three trumps, and your LHO has high honor third left (starting with four to an honor). Now you will lose two more trumps, due to a repeated spade force. If the club hook wins. You play heart ACE and heart, you can surive 4-1 with stiff offside. Due to spade force, you were never surviving any 4-1 split where both honors are with the four spades (well, if hand with four hearts has only 3 spades, you can not be forced, and make even if you lose to a singleton heart honor)... if the club hook wins. Now if the club hook loses, you need to catch WEST wtih KQx, Kx, or Qx of hearts, so you forgo the heart ace play and lead the jack and let it ride if not covered. Ben Yes i see your point now, but still think its inferior to other lines, first im not sure that even as you said it, playing a club first is safer, because you run the risk of Kxxx or Kxx in east's hand which after taking the club he will continue clubs and you will either get ruffed imidietly or after you play heart. Second If west has Hxxx you still have a two chances either finnese club first , which is intresting. but even if you play heart to the A, you still makes it if west has 3+ diamonds and 3 clubs which is not too bad.

How is this better then just running the J of heart ? ot seems to me that its both safer and will make an overtrick more times.

If revese mean playing 1H-3c= 10-11 3D= 6-9, its oviosly a bad idea since after 3d you cant reinvite. So lets look at the more intresting 3C= 8-11 3D=6-7. To me its seems like he normal bergen is better for two ressons. First without intrfirence there is a small advantage in the normal way, since in the games and slams bidding there will be less info given to the opponents for free, for example 1H-3D-4H in normal bergen will now turn into either 1H-3C-4H or 1H-3C-3D-4H/something else. when both opener and responder gave more info to opponents. With interference playing the specific bid to be 10-11 is imo an advantage since with 10-11 you will have more games so the specific bid helps you in game bidding and not partscore ones. One more thing i like doing with normal bergen (or our version of it) is add slam hands to the 6-9 bid, this works well for our limited opening 1M. We dont need a bid for GF with 4 card support, with minimum game we just bid 4M (this give less info opponents might think they need to double or to overbid us) and with little better then GF we bid the 6-9.

Do you mean KQx? I think that if RHO has a stiff ♦Q you are not happy with your line of play... :P He ment Kxx. His line works for KQx but doesnt with Kxx. I think he is right here.

Id bid 2sp but you are not wrong, your thinking process is right meaning there is a down side to this bid, but here this down side isnt strong enough, put another card in heart and you will be right to pass. which partner will tend to double and you will bid remove to 2sp.

I dont like strong jum overcalls, they are first very rare and second even when they apear they many time ,proves to be a waste of bidding space. Also as other rare tools people are not using it to its best effect since they lack practice.