What is the name of this squeeze/endplay

[PriorKnowledge]

I used to play much 2-handed bridge (I have some great unpublished rules for both 2 and 3 handed, if anyone is interested). A play would frequently occur similar to the following ending position with spades as trump:

Offense: ♠x ♥x ♦AQ ♣

Defense: ♠ ♥AK ♦K2 ♣

You play your last spade and opponent must either blank the heart ace allowing you to lead a heart for a diam endplay, or blank the KD allowing you to drop the king.

This play occurs, although rarely, in 4-handed play. Does anyone know the name of this type of play?

[Gerben47]

This occurs more often than you might think. It is called a strip squeeze.

In many situations where you have 2 losers and cannot afford to give up a trick this is your only chance. I'm sure someone can give a recent board where this came up.

[inquiry]

Indeed it occurs fairly often, and if it want to give it a long complicated name, it would be something like "two loser, vulnerable stopper strip squeeze"

 

Try to work in the term vulnerable stopper (That is what the club king is here, it is a stopper, as it prevents you from cashing two club tricks), as it makes it easier to remember in play. Not all "strip squeezes" involve a vulnerable stopper.

 

BTW, I dug around in my box of books, and found that Clyde Love calls this ending a two-loser strip squeeze: Vulnerable stopper... as a variety of strip squeeze.

 

You might want to look at kgr's three looser thread (Three looser thread) where ending such as this are discussed... and indeed, the hand he shows evolves down to this very ending.

 

Ben