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Squeeze avoidance from trick one Opening Lead, Entertainment.

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Posted 2006-January-10, 01:53

Does anyone know of any hands where the opening lead was(or had to be) chosen in order to avoid a squeeze on the defense? Would be interesting to see such hands and the reasoning behind the lead.

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Posted 2006-January-10, 03:53

I had one last week from trick 2, I can easily change it to one from trick 1:

7♠, only a ♣ lead defeats the contract (by 2). Whenever West has long ♦ and East has ♣AQ you have a squeeze, no matter how ♥ are divided. ;)

Squeeze ending (even with 4 ♥ with West):

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Posted 2006-January-10, 04:04

Surely a heart lead defeats 7S?
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Posted 2006-January-10, 09:58

In real life I'm confident nobody is good enough to make a lead to break up a squeeze at trick 1. There are hands where you make a lead to try and kill communications at trick 1 (like leading dummy's solid suit in hope declarer is stiff).
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Posted 2006-January-10, 14:07

Jlall, on Jan 10 2006, 05:58 PM, said:

In real life I'm confident nobody is good enough to make a lead to break up a squeeze at trick 1. There are hands where you make a lead to try and kill communications at trick 1 (like leading dummy's solid suit in hope declarer is stiff).

Frances once mentioned somewhere (possibly on RGG) that her partner once made an opening lead to break up a double squeeze, and it worked! I would really love to see that hand once.
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Posted 2006-January-10, 18:30

I played some time ago a 7NT where a lead in either red suit would cut the communications for the double squeeze, while a black lead let communications intact.

If I remember right, the hand was:


The lead was J♣ (from JT98 - I doubt it can be faulted) so everything went well.

If I had x Axx AKxx AKQxx, a club lead would have been the only one not to kill the squeeze at trick one :lol:
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