Opps have given you a chanche

[kgr]

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North Dealer; All green at IMP's the bidding goes:

p-(p)-1H-(2D)

2H-(P)-p-(DBL)

P-(2S)-3H-All Pass

 

The play:

LHO starts with a small ♠ which runs to your ♠Q.

You now play ♦10 and LHO puts on the ♦A.

LHO play a ♣ for the ♣K in dummy and RHO's ♣A.

RHO continues with a ♠ for the ♠10 of LHO.

LHO now plays a trump.

This is the situation when LHO played the ♥ and you can loose one more trick:

 

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How do you play from here?

(If you play low from dummy then RHO plays the ♥8;If you would play the ♥9 he would cover with the ♥10).

[CSGibson]

Duck the heart. Win the heart return and run trump and your ace of spades, leaving this on the penultimate trump

 

 

 

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LHO should be squeezed with 3 diamonds and the king of spades.

[kgr]

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This is the situation when LHO leads a ♥.

This is not really a squeeze, you have to duck to keep control.

(At the table LHO started with a DBL and RHO did bid ♠ twice. That made this position less clear and I went 1 down. ...I don't think I would have found the duck if the bidding would have gone as given in the problem)

[skjaeran]

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This is the situation when LHO leads a ♥.

This is not really a squeeze, you have to duck to keep control.

(At the table LHO started with a DBL and RHO did bid ♠ twice. That made this position less clear and I went 1 down. ...I don't think I would have found the duck if the bidding would have gone as given in the problem)

As far as I can see you don't need to do anything special here.

Just win the ♥Q, ♠ to A, ♣ ruff, ♠ruff and ♣ruff.

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Now yoy lead the ♦K off dummy, and east only gets a trump trick.

[kgr]

As far as I can see you don't need to do anything special here.

Just win the ♥Q, ♠ to A, ♣ ruff, ♠ruff and ♣ruff.

Position:

Dealer: ????? Vul: ???? Scoring: Unknown

♠ [space] ♥ [space] ♦ KJ83 ♣ [space] ♠ K ♥ [space] ♦ Q97 ♣ [space] ♠ 8 ♥ JT8 ♦ [space] ♣ [space] ♠ [space] ♥ AK7 ♦ 5 ♣ [space]

Now yoy lead the ♦K off dummy, and east only gets a trump trick.

Yes, right!..sorry..

Seems like you should only not win with ♥A or K.

(given the bidding that happened at the table

1H-(DBL)-RDBL-(1S)

P-(p)-2H-(2S)

3H-All Pass

that is probably the best play)

...Probably I would have made the contract if we didn't have ♦J :(

[skjaeran]

...Probably I would have made the contract if we didn't have ♦J :(

That's often occuring - some honour card makes it harder to see a simple and effective line which you never would miss if you didn't hold that card.

[Halo]

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This is the situation when LHO leads a ♥.

This is not really a squeeze, you have to duck to keep control.

(At the table LHO started with a DBL and RHO did bid ♠ twice. That made this position less clear and I went 1 down. ...I don't think I would have found the duck if the bidding would have gone as given in the problem)

Why is not a squeeze?