pclayton Posted May 29, 2005 Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 [hv=d=s&v=b&n=s4h765dt532cakqj2&w=s32haqt4dj9876c43&e=st9765hj98dct9876&s=sakqj8hk32dakq4c5]399|300|Scoring: IMP[/hv] I was kibitzing John Swanson and Jill Meyers yesterday and this interesting hand came up. Swanson and his partner stopped in 4N after a misevaluation by his partner. I've interchanged an 8 and a 9 to make the hand a little more interesting. Jill led a small diamond and Randi Montin (Jill's pard) was squoze in the blacks for 13 tricks. 6♦ looks good, but 6N is considerably more safer, except on this hand, every key suit is not splitting and the A♥ is wrong. Do you want to play or defend 6N (from the South side obviously)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted May 29, 2005 Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 play!, 11 top tricks and seems 12th will come easylly with a strip-squeeze, althou not sure if I would find it at the table, it seems you soon discover West has 4 ♥ and East 3, wich means West is favourite for holding ♥A (also because the lead wasn't a ♥ with 4 cards having bid all the remaining suits probably). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpace Posted May 29, 2005 Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 What would the declarer do on a club lead? Seems like a club lead cuts the communication... (Maybe declarer can throw West in with a diamond?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted May 29, 2005 Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 What would the declarer do on a club lead? Seems like a club lead cuts the communication... (Maybe declarer can throw West in with a diamond?) Run the clubs, pitching a spade and two hearts from hand, then run the spades from hand. You come down to ♥K ♦AKQx in hand (with ♦Txxx left in dummy) and West is squeezed (exit with ♥K in case he keeps ♥A ♦Jxxx). You don't need communication to execute a strip-squeeze. Arend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpace Posted May 29, 2005 Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 What would the declarer do on a club lead? Seems like a club lead cuts the communication... (Maybe declarer can throw West in with a diamond?) Run the clubs, pitching a spade and two hearts from hand, then run the spades from hand. You come down to ♥K ♦AKQx in hand (with ♦Txxx left in dummy) and West is squeezed (exit with ♥K in case he keeps ♥A ♦Jxxx). You don't need communication to execute a strip-squeeze. Arend Yes, I realised that after I posted... Also the statement about throwing West in with a diamond is totally silly! We would lose a diamond and a heart too! :D I was thinking declarer would squeeze East rather than West, for that we need communication. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted May 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2005 Right - on a club lead, the strip squeeze operates against LHO in the reds, although its double dummy - as You have to bare the Spades and the KH. A red suit lead gets you the 12th right away. On a spade lead, you curiously get to strip squeeze EITHER opponent as the J-8 of spades becomes a major tenace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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