6NT

[Zloty]

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Contract: 6NT

Play: Match Point

Lead: 4 of ♠ by north

 

 

 

 

Any ideas?

[hautbois]

Win Q♠, cash diamonds hoping north doesn't show out but south does. Come down to:

 

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A♣ will squeeze north if he held 4+ diamonds along with 4+ spades.

[gszes]

ok 12 tricks on top and since its MP that 13th trick might be worth a lot. There are two

 

very legitimate shots for 13 tricks and the first is presented at trick 1 what card to play

 

to the spade lead. You can play the nine hoping lho began life with JT(xxx) (but probably

 

w/o the 8 since J would be much more likely then) OR you can play low hoping rho has

 

to insert the J or T and we can finesse lho for the other honor.

 

Assuming we guess wrong at trick 1 (ie if you play low rho inserts the 8 and if you play the 9 rho covers)

 

we still have two types of squeezes available to us and the neat part is we can try to execute both of them

 

in the same way to begin with.

 

Start off by cashing the AKQ of diamonds (pitch a heart) and hope one of the opps shows out

 

or you will have to guess how to proceed (you are good at guessing right?) If lho is guarding the dia and

 

the spades we have them caught in a simple squeeze. All we do now is cash our clubs and the heart A

 

reducing our hands to AKX void 3 void opposite 2 97 void A what 4 cards can lho hold when we play

 

our last club at trick 10? If they pitch a dia we pitch our spade from dummy and lead a spade and claim

 

if they pitch a spade we pitch our dia from dummy and lead a spade and claim (see hautbois).

 

What if rho has the long diamonds?? We go for the play that will get us written up as the player of the

 

week by going to a compound squeeze. We just assume lho is guarding spades and rho is guarding

 

diamonds (and don't forget to thank lho for not leading a heart:)).

 

trick 1 wind spade Q (our ill fated spade guess was wrong as usual)

 

trick 2 dia A

 

trick 3 dia K

 

trick 4 dia Q is no one shows out the odds favor playing rho for 4th dia due to empty spaces though we can

 

still play for simple squeeze against lho if lho is very short in clubs.

 

trick 5 6 7 clubs ending in hand and decide if it is better to go for the simple squeeze or the compound

 

squeeze (ie lho is not overly short in clubs and had 3 diamonds to go with presumed 4 spades). We are going

 

to assume rho is guarding the dia to finish out the squeeze.

 

trick 8 club A pitch a heart

 

trick 9 our hands are AQx x x void x Axx void K lead the club K what does lho pitch ? if they trhow a spade

 

we can pitch our dia and the spades and heart A take the rest. If they pitch a heart (which means lho has 3s 1h left)

 

we pitch the small spade and continue

 

trick 10 spade to K

 

trick 11 spade A our hands are now void x x void void Ax void void what 2 cards cqan RHO keep?

 

if they fail to keep a dia our dia is good along with heart A if they fail to keep 2 hearts our A9 will take the

 

last 2 tricks:)))))))))))))))))))))) who said bridge cant be fun ???????????????????????????