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Strip Squeeze?

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Posted 2019-February-26, 06:26



Club night. Pairs.
Lead = King of hearts (King for count)

A lively auction on a hand with extreme distribution. The opposing 5 looks to be making.

How should this have been played? What ending should declarer aim for?
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Posted 2019-February-26, 07:00

Unless N is capable of a massive bluff, he has A/K (and S just has a load of heart honours given N's X of the final contract.)

So, ruff the heart and use 3 trump entries to ruff 2 more hearts and play a club to the K before rumbling the trumps.



Now lead the final trump pitching a club and N is strip squeezed
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Posted 2019-February-26, 12:42

If North would have passed, the hand would be a bit more difficult. But with the double, it seems reasonable to assume North holds the A especially because South might have led it had in been in his/her hand. But then if South holds the K the hand probably can't be made. So assume as cyberyeti indicated and follow his line of play.

Strip squeezes work with 2 losers provided all the other conditions for BLUE are met.
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Posted 2019-February-26, 19:06

The key issue is which way to play the clubs. It must be low toward the honor situated behind the ace - a defender rising with the ace beats air and allows a spade discard. The next hurdle is to figure out the discards. A topnotch defender will see the strip squeeze coming early on and will discard down to singleton K of spades and 2 clubs. It's not always easy to read the situation because a topnotch player against a topnotch player may fake this sequence and not bare the king.
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Posted 2019-February-27, 02:18

Cyberyeti has described the hand and given a good reason why declarer might have got it right:



Declarer wasn't put to the test since I (North) pulled a wrong card! :(

All eight tables played diamond contracts (four at the five level, three at the six level and one went to seven). Only one other table made 12 tricks and since I doubt there was a revoke at their table, maybe she got it right.

Thanks for the helpful comments.
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