[Trumpace]

Scoring: IMP

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West opens with 1♥. North jumps to 3♠, and you South, reach 6NT after a few bids between you and partner.

West leads the ♥Q, you win with the ♥A and play the ♠ ten. West follows with four and East plays the seven.

What now?

Aside: I found this hand in the book, "Logical Bridge Play" by Hugh Kelsey. The book is supposedly for intermediate players!

[Winstonm]

Looks to me like the only way to make now is on a heart/diamond squeeze, but the problem is getting the timing right. I have to play LHO for no more than two clubs and cash the A and K of clubs before leading the next spade.

[pclayton]

Trumpace, on Jun 19 2006, 06:09 PM, said:

Scoring: IMP

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West opens with 1♥. North jumps to 3♠, and you South, reach 6NT after a few bids between you and partner.

West leads the ♥Q, you win with the ♥A and play the ♠ ten. West follows with four and East plays the seven.

What now?

Aside: I found this hand in the book, "Logical Bridge Play" by Hugh Kelsey. The book is supposedly for intermediate players!

I love this hand too. I reread Logical Bridge Play a few months ago and instantly recognized it.

[Trumpace]

Winstonm, on Jun 19 2006, 09:33 PM, said:

Looks to me like the only way to make now is on a heart/diamond squeeze, but the problem is getting the timing right. I have to play LHO for no more than two clubs and cash the A and K of clubs before leading the next spade.

Assume LHO has atleast 3 clubs.

[inquiry]

Triple squeeze.. threat cards in dummy ♥5, ♣J... "extended" threat cards in your hand, ♦AQJ. Cash one high club, and Jettison other ♣ on spades. Of course if they don't return a heart, and instead return CLUB QUEEN to blot out your ♣ threat, you have a normal run of the mill heart/diamond squeeze.

[hatchett]

I will cash one top club and then play a second round of spades

assume LHO wins and plays

(i) a Heart, I win in dummy and run spades pitching the club King from hand executing a triple squeeze against LHO which repeats because of the extended diamond menace against LHO.

(ii) a Diamond gives the contract immediately

(iii) a Club/Spade reduces to a simple red suit squeeze against LHO

[jdonn]

Winstonm, on Jun 19 2006, 09:33 PM, said:

Looks to me like the only way to make now is on a heart/diamond squeeze, but the problem is getting the timing right.  I have to play LHO for no more than two clubs and cash the A and K of clubs before leading the next spade.

I believe this would be correct if we didn't hold the diamond jack, since in that case the line of pitching a club honor lets west release the diamond king and east guard the long diamond.