[inquiry]

Scoring: IMP

West North East South

 -     -     Pass  1NT
 Pass  6NT   Dbl   Pass
 Pass  Pass  

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East disrupts your unscientific auction with a rude double, don’t let him ruin your day by defeating you. Opening lead diamond 3 (“standard leads”). You cleverly place the diamond ACE with RHO for his double, so you play low. EAST wins diamond ace and exits with a low club.

[whereagles]

Quickie solution (might be incomplete, but this is about as much as I'd try at table):

1. Cash 1 round of spades and 3 rounds of clubs ending in dummy to see who's more likely to hold four spades

2a. If East more likely, cash top diams discarding hearts, cross to hand with the last spade and cash two clubs for a double squeeze

2b. If West more likely, return to hand in spades to cash two clubs discarding a heart and a diam from dummy. Crossing to heart ace should now squeeze West in spades/diams

[Fluffy]

The contract is cold as long as ♦J is within west, and ♥K is within east, not so hard assumptions this time .

Spoiler

You would make even if both opponents could held 4+♠, just a non simultaneos double squeeze, the only thing you have to care about is to guard the precious ♥A untill all ♣ have been won.

Cash 5♣, ♥A and ♦KQ, this is the ending position:

♠863
♥
♦Q10
♣

♠AKQ9
♥Q
♦
♣

If the ♥K nor ♦J have appeared on ♦Q trick it means 4 cards left with 1 non ♠ known card on each opponent.....

[whereagles]

Hum.. yeah, you're right. That seems better.

[xx1943]

Fluffy, on Sep 25 2004, 12:28 PM, said:

The contract is cold as long as ♦J is within west, and ♥K is within east, not so hard assumptions this time .

Spoiler

You would make even if both opponents could held 4+♠, just a non simultaneos double squeeze, the only thing you have to care about is to guard the precious ♥A untill all ♣ have been won.

Cash 5♣, ♥A and ♦KQ, this is the ending position:

♠863
♥
♦Q10
♣

♠AKQ9
♥Q
♦
♣

If the ♥K nor ♦J have appeared on ♦Q trick it means 4 cards left with 1 non ♠ known card on each opponent.....

Hi Fluffy
seems I remember this hand. I played just as you said and announced proudly "Coup Vienna". But alas the ♥K was with WEST and a simple finesse had done his work.
Do I remeber rite, Ben?

Sincerly

Al

[inquiry]

xx1943, on Sep 25 2004, 08:13 AM, said:

Hi Fluffy
seems I remember this hand. I played just as you said and announced proudly "Coup Vienna". But alas the ♥K was with WEST and a simple finesse had done his work. 
Do I remeber rite, Ben?

Sincerly

Al

Hi Al,

You must be remembering a different hand. This one was played on May 4th. Here is a list of the results on this one....

Quote

  1 6NX  N    H3  crevette1        12  1680  15.07         
  2 3N    N    S2  misterlu           12   690   3.20         
  3 5N    S    S5  reussi              12   690   3.20         
  4 3N    S    S5  nikita4             12   690   3.20         
  5 3N    S    D3  JKOREN            11   660   2.47         
  6 3N    N    S4  jodia                11   660   2.47         
  7 3N    S    D3  lhughes66         11   660   2.47         
  8 3N    S    S5  daisy0217         11   660   2.47         
  9 3N    N    H6  duoduoyj          11   660   2.47         
10 5N    S   S5  michal37           11   660   2.47         
11 3N    S   H5  XtraPortl          11   660   2.47         
12 3N    N   S2  Potame            10   630   1.73         
13 6C    S   S5  LLoU                10  -200 -10.53         
14 6N    S   S5  bras                 10  -200 -10.53         
15 6NX   S  D3  xx21                 11  -200 -10.53         
16 6S    S H5  toto4                  9  -300 -12.07

And indeed, Fluffy's line and reasoning are both correct. This is a (vienna coup) simple squeeze (spade-heart on EAST), played as a double squeeze (as it could be diamond-spade of west). The full hand was....

Scoring: IMP

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[luke warm]

[quote name='inquiry' date='Sep 25 2004, 10:34 AM']

Scoring: IMP


let's see if i can play this one without losing the first 2 tricks again... win the club on the board, cash 2 top diamonds throwing hearts, spade to hand.. cash other 2 spade winners and run the clubs.. here's what i think is left

[PARTNERSNS=?????,????,Unknown,,A2,T,,9,Q,,J]

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lead the last club... if lho throws a heart, toss the diamond.. now rho, who i hope has a spade and 2 hearts, needs to throw something.. if the spade, the 9 is good.. if the heart, A,2 in dummy should be good

oops.. we musta posted at same time... nice line fluffy... something happened to the formatting when i added the edit... i had
[he]A 2
[di]T
in dummy and
[sp]9
[he]Q
[cl]J
in hand

This post has been edited by luke warm: 2004-September-25, 09:42