zenbiddist Posted April 28, 2015 Report Share Posted April 28, 2015 So this hand came up last night in a Sydney tournament: [hv=pc=n&s=sa542hakt3dqcqt97&w=skqj86hq854djc853&n=s9hj97dakt86532c2&e=st73h62d974cakj64]399|300[/hv] 6♦ SouthOn the ♠K lead..On a club lead..Which lead breaks 6♦ by North? The only guy to bid the slam made it on that lead. So what did the opponents need to do to beat it? Cool hand :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted April 28, 2015 Report Share Posted April 28, 2015 6♦ by N on a heart lead is interesting also if they lead another heart when in with the club (Overtake Q♦ at trick 2, draw trumps and play a club). Declarer ruffs a club and rumbles all the diamonds leaving: [hv=pc=n&s=sa5hdcq&w=skqhqdc&n=s9hjd2c&e=st7hdck]399|300[/hv] and the 2♦ executes the double squeeze. It appears a spade switch when in with the club breaks this up. K♠ lead v 6♦S: A♠ and ruff one, ♦ to Q and ruff another then rumble the trumps leaving: [hv=pc=n&s=s2haktdc&w=skhq85dc&n=shj97dc2&e=sh62dcak]399|300[/hv] Now you cross to a top heart and exit with the spade. On a club lead, you have to switch to a spade, if you switch to a heart the double squeeze above works. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahydra Posted April 28, 2015 Report Share Posted April 28, 2015 I must be getting better at this game :) - I saw that there might be a double squeeze involving spades as the common suit but couldn't figure it out exactly. In the second case (squeeze-endplay) the problem I've got atm is envisaging layouts where the squeeze works - for example on this hand you have to assume West has 5+ spades and the HQ if you want the endplay to work, and I find myself just stuck thinking "fails if spades are 4-4, perhaps there's something better" (such as the rather ordinary heart finesse). I recently bought Love's seminal book on squeezes - much recommended for any who haven't read it btw. Hopefully this can help me move from "hmm, I can sort of see that a squeeze might work" to "yep, you do this and it works". ahydra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nige1 Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 [hv=pc=n&s=sak765432h6dj54c5&w=sjt9hakqjtd76c876&n=sqh5432dak32cA432&d=s&a=6sppp]399|300|Pretty problem zenbiddist!Simplified version[/hv] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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