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#1 User is offline   kayin801 

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Posted 2010-October-16, 23:34

Scoring: MP

Trumps: ♦
Lead: ♠Q


I will leave out the auction because it is too horrible to mention, but South ended up in diamonds after West showed the black suits.

Trick 1: ♠queen, ACE, x, x
Trick 2: ♦x, x, QUEEN, jack
Trick 3: ♦ACE, ♠x, ♥x, x
Trick 4: ♦ten, ♥x, ♣x, KING
Trick 5: ♥king, ACE, x, x

On the run of the diamonds it came down to this position:
Scoring: MP

Trumps: ♦
Lead: ♠Q


And on the last diamond West didn't give up the spade suit so he pitched a low club while dummy threw a spade, and was thrown in with a low club after the spade finesse so declarer could score both black kings.

Is this a stepping stone squeeze or just a strip squeeze or is it some other kind? Declarer easily makes 11 tricks if a heart isn't played by East at trick 5.
I once yelled at my partner for discarding the 'wrong' card when he was subjected to a squeeze that I allowed by giving the wrong count with too high a card. Now he's allowed to pitch aces when the opponents have the king in the dummy. At trick 2. When he could have followed suit. And blame me.

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Posted 2010-October-17, 02:35

It looks to be a non-material squeeze, to me. Playing out the diamonds doesn't really gain you an extra trick, since you can always take the ♠KT and ♣K anyway. The run of the diamonds forces LHO to abandon hearts, though, allowing you to setup the ♣K for a second ♥ pitch. In the diagrammed position, playing the last diamond is unnecessary, since you have the entries to finesse the spade and lead up to the club.

A more interesting end position involves LHO coming down to J9x, J, -, A. Now the last diamond forces him to pitch a heart, again allowing you to take your tricks.
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Posted 2010-October-17, 02:42

kayin801, on Oct 17 2010, 12:34 AM, said:

Declarer easily makes 9 tricks if a heart isn't played by East at trick 5.

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Posted 2010-October-17, 05:33

Second best pclayton post of the year.
and the result can be plotted on a graph.
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Posted 2010-October-17, 10:24

Ah yeah, a spade ruff would kinda suck wouldn't it. Oh well. Thankfully it doesn't change the (semi-unnecessary) squeeze.
I once yelled at my partner for discarding the 'wrong' card when he was subjected to a squeeze that I allowed by giving the wrong count with too high a card. Now he's allowed to pitch aces when the opponents have the king in the dummy. At trick 2. When he could have followed suit. And blame me.

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