Corss-Reference Cool Hand

[kenrexford]

In case you missed it (140 views -- no one noted it), there is a cool hand in the Beginner/Intermediate forum. "I think I made a major mistake."

 

The hand features a botched auction to 6D. The partnership was at 6C for a minute. That contract actually makes because the Kx in spades is well-placed, allowing that finesse to work and a second entry to dummy's Jxx, AND because the QJxxx is in front of the AK10 of diamonds, AND because Declarer has the Jx of hearts, RHO the KQ, which creates a menace for a throw-in squeeze to enable a double hook of the diamonds without sufficient entries (hence, a "third entry.")

 

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