[kgr]

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North Dealer; All green at IMP's the bidding goes:
p-(p)-1H-(2D)
2H-(P)-p-(DBL)
P-(2S)-3H-All Pass

The play:
LHO starts with a small ♠ which runs to your ♠Q.
You now play ♦10 and LHO puts on the ♦A.
LHO play a ♣ for the ♣K in dummy and RHO's ♣A.
RHO continues with a ♠ for the ♠10 of LHO.
LHO now plays a trump.
This is the situation when LHO played the ♥ and you can loose one more trick:

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How do you play from here?
(If you play low from dummy then RHO plays the ♥8;If you would play the ♥9 he would cover with the ♥10).

[CSGibson]

Duck the heart. Win the heart return and run trump and your ace of spades, leaving this on the penultimate trump

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LHO should be squeezed with 3 diamonds and the king of spades.

[kgr]

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This is the situation when LHO leads a ♥.
This is not really a squeeze, you have to duck to keep control.
(At the table LHO started with a DBL and RHO did bid ♠ twice. That made this position less clear and I went 1 down. ...I don't think I would have found the duck if the bidding would have gone as given in the problem)

[skjaeran]

kgr, on Sep 9 2007, 01:24 PM, said:

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This is the situation when LHO leads a ♥.
This is not really a squeeze, you have to duck to keep control.
(At the table LHO started with a DBL and RHO did bid ♠ twice. That made this position less clear and I went 1 down. ...I don't think I would have found the duck if the bidding would have gone as given in the problem)

As far as I can see you don't need to do anything special here.
Just win the ♥Q, ♠ to A, ♣ ruff, ♠ruff and ♣ruff.
Position:

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Now yoy lead the ♦K off dummy, and east only gets a trump trick.

[kgr]

skaeran, on Sep 9 2007, 02:25 PM, said:

As far as I can see you don't need to do anything special here.
Just win the ♥Q, ♠ to A, ♣ ruff, ♠ruff and ♣ruff.
Position:

Dealer: ????? Vul: ???? Scoring: Unknown

♠   ♥   ♦ KJ83 ♣   ♠ K ♥   ♦ Q97 ♣   ♠ 8 ♥ JT8 ♦   ♣   ♠   ♥ AK7 ♦ 5 ♣

Now yoy lead the ♦K off dummy, and east only gets a trump trick.

Yes, right!..sorry..
Seems like you should only not win with ♥A or K.
(given the bidding that happened at the table
1H-(DBL)-RDBL-(1S)
P-(p)-2H-(2S)
3H-All Pass
that is probably the best play)
...Probably I would have made the contract if we didn't have ♦J

[skjaeran]

kgr, on Sep 9 2007, 04:33 PM, said:

...Probably I would have made the contract if we didn't have ♦J

That's often occuring - some honour card makes it harder to see a simple and effective line which you never would miss if you didn't hold that card.

[Halo]

kgr, on Sep 9 2007, 06:24 AM, said:

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This is the situation when LHO leads a ♥.
This is not really a squeeze, you have to duck to keep control.
(At the table LHO started with a DBL and RHO did bid ♠ twice. That made this position less clear and I went 1 down. ...I don't think I would have found the duck if the bidding would have gone as given in the problem)

Why is not a squeeze?