[sailoranch]

rogerclee, on Oct 22 2008, 12:27 AM, said:

The timing for the squeeze against west is wrong (unless he has the ♥K, but then it is moot). On top of this, you are giving up when LHO has ♥Kxx or ♥Kx and only one spade.

Thanks, I see the point about not having to collect the spade suit. I wasn't so sure about the ♥K either. But seeing that the ♥K must be on the left whenever ♠QJx is on the right, the extra making chances must be worth whatever you lose whenever the ruffing finesse would have been better.

For what it's worth, at the table, the king was offside:

Scoring: IMP

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[1eyedjack]

EDIT - forget that. thought another 10 secs

Looks like you were never making this except double dummy.

I always had reservations about placing the Heart King with West purely because there were not enough schmoints otherwise for his double, and despite that a sensible evaluation of the King probably makes it worth only 1 or so. If there aren't enough points then perhaps he should be placed with compensating shape, which strengthens the case for East having the King. But if you so conclude then the honour dropping on the first round of trumps makes it interesting. If you accurately place the Heart King with East then I think you are down if you cash the AK of Spades and West's trump honour turned out to be a singleton, when you could otherwise have made by relying on the more likely Hxx trump onside.

[benlessard]

This is one of the worse X ive ever saw, especially if 1Nt to show both minor but weakish is available.