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Dbl is bad in this case, it should promise spade. Pd will bid spades and you will retreat to club and pd will wonder what you want to do. He may think you have a hand better than direct raise.

I think you should raise to 3C in the first round. Now I bid 5C. IN this sequence pd has 4 clubs for sure.

3H, but i think pass is close. doubleton spade is a minus here.

Well, in some ways I agree with justin that the name makes no difference, the idea is can you see how to do it. Sometimes naming the squeeze will help you remember how to look for it and to classify it. But this is not a strip squeeze. A strip squeeze "strips" cards of exit out by squeezing them out. Here EAST runs out of diamonds by the simple device of playing the diamond king. Thus no strip squeeze involved. However, give EAST one more diamond, and one less spade, it would be a strip squeeze. The last club will strip a diamond out of EAST's hand, or you can go about setting up which ever major he shortens.. the ending on last club would be... A strip squeeze per se would be... [hv=n=saxhaxxdck&w=shdaqjt98c&e=skxhqjtdkc&s=sqxhkxxdxc]399|300|Needing five tricks... you lead the club king. If East throws a spade, you win 1♣, 2♠, 2♥. If east throws a heart, you win 1♣, 1♠, 3♥ If east trows his diamond exit, you pitch a diamond, and play three rounds of heart to EAST, who wins third heart, and then has to lead a spade from Kx into your AQ. Notice if EAST's diamond was a third spade, yo could just play three rounds of hearts for the same result. [/hv] But squeeze termenology differs, like I said Professor Eng called this a developmental squeeze. Clyde love called it a delayed duck. If you have old enough books, George S. Coffin called it Squeeze Suitout. A variety of other authors called these squeezes (all of them) something like "squeeze witout count" which seemed to drive Eng wild as he things loser is ok with one, two, three, etc, as long as other parts of the hand are ok. I have to admit I stopped spending money on squeeze books a long time before kelsey's came out. This is because I figured them out, and most books have little or no extra value for me. So I can't say what kelsey called them (anyone want to loan me kelsey's books?). But in my mind, a strip squeeze involves stripping the exit card out..... in what I generally like to call a vulnerable stopper squeeze (like the one shown above, where the spade king is the vulnerable stopper). Maybe justin was more right than I thought when he said he said, what does the name matter. Ben Ben, I just check the book. Strip sqz includes not only sqz out the exit card, but also sqz out surplus winners, which is the case here. Loosely speaking, any secondary sqz, i.e., you still concede a trick after sqz has taken effect, is strip sqz. Hongjun

i think finessing h twice is the right play.

This is positional stripe squeeze. See Kelsey's sqz complete vol. 2.

Just upgrade or downgrade to bid 3H or 4H. I dont think in this sequence it is that important to distinguish them

I agree with this, though he may not have spade stack, pd rates to have it.

This is different from 1 over 1. This is rebid 1 over 1 response.

I think it is passable. If you worry pd will pass it, jump shift to 2M. I am not going to argue which way is better. Only that if you are playing with me, be prepare for it:)

jimmy, that is not quite enough, better to bid 2D or 2H if pd reopen.

1) dbl 2) pass.

Hehe, the only reason you ask must be u passed and got a bad result. No matter what happened you still should pass next time.

Pd has no DA, not sure if spade suit is good enough for trumps. Perhaps you can jump to 6D ask pd to pick a slam? Pd will pass with some d spt, but with good spade he will bid 6s.

I think the reason we have to lead small here is that RHO bid heart suits and is marked with 4card hearts. If he didnt bid it, then I think HQ is the normal lead.

i will pass now, as 2c is forcing.

hehe, you need some help from pd on heart suit, leas h7. hoping pd has hk or h9

i just reread the hand evaluation book. i think it worths reading many times.

his bidding book is even better:)

is 3C forcing? 4D is a good choice. Or 3D cuebid. This hand is very good now, the bad news is that your hearts are likely to be wasteful cards.

3S is an interesting bid. His pd didnt promise spade fit. Did he?

RHo could even have 4card spade but passed, without high card or good shape. Pd rates to have spade doubleton too.

dbl black doubleton is a big minus. Otherwise I would bid 4H. Case could be made for dbl here. You have one ace and pd raised you to 3H, knowing you could have nothing.

Hehe, the problem is you are very optimistic to open 1C, thinking u have a shapy hand, but now you have to rebid 1N. If pd raise u to 2N, I am sure you wont be happy and most of time this 2N will have no play. This is kind of hand I wouel regret to open, though I understand many posters here would think this is an automatic opening.

I vote for 1D. I am worrying I dont have enough space to bid out my two suiters after 1C opening.