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A8x
xx
Txxxx
Qx
x
AKQxx
AKQJx
1C* (2H) 3C (P)
4C (P) 4H (P)
7C
1C = Precision, 2H = Majors, 4C Bw, 4H = 2
Lead is a C. How do you play it? Clue, Ds don't break. I'll eventually post the whole hand, but this is interesting form a variety of viewpoints, including the lead I made. How do you play it on a S lead?
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Posted 2005-July-20, 07:55
"The King of Hearts a broadsword bears, the Queen of Hearts a rose." W. H. Auden.
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Posted 2005-July-20, 08:33
The_Hog, on Jul 20 2005, 08:55 AM, said:
Axx
A8x
xx
Txxxx
Qx
x
AKQxx
AKQJx
1C* (2H) 3C (P)
4C (P) 4H (P)
7C
1C = Precision, 2H = Majors
Lead is a C. How do you play it? Clue, Ds don't break. I'll eventually post the whole hand, but this is interesting form a variety of viewpoints, including the lead I made. How do you play it on a S lead?
A8x
xx
Txxxx
Qx
x
AKQxx
AKQJx
1C* (2H) 3C (P)
4C (P) 4H (P)
7C
1C = Precision, 2H = Majors
Lead is a C. How do you play it? Clue, Ds don't break. I'll eventually post the whole hand, but this is interesting form a variety of viewpoints, including the lead I made. How do you play it on a S lead?
If diamonds are 4-2, I can discard both spade losers (one on diamond honor, one on 5th diamond) and ruff 2 hearts.
If diamonds are 5-1 and spade lead does not give me a trick, I don't see any squeeze position there (but then, that's just me being blind, I discover most squeeze plays when opponents tell me afterwards that I played it well
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Posted 2005-July-20, 09:06
Hmmm.
By "don't break" I assume you mean 5-1 (or 6-0) otherwise it's cold in the obvious fashion.
I also assume from the auction that East is the hand with 5 diamonds.
I can't see us squeezing West in the majors, as East must surely have a heart guard.
There can't be a double squeeze, because if diamonds don't break we need two heart ruffs in hand (or two diamond ruffs in dummy) to get up to 12 tricks so one of our menaces will disappear.
So the only person we can squeeze is East, whom we now need to have the SK.
So win the club lead in hand (assuming everyone follows).
Take another top trump from hand.
Ace of hearts, heart ruff high.
Club to the 10, heart ruff high.
Spade to dummy's ace, last trump squeezing East in the pointed suits.
This is all very well, but goes off if West has the SK and diamonds are 4-2.
So in practice I think I go off unless West's 2H overcall promised at least 10 cards in the majors (unlikely). If that's the case, then as soon as West follows to the second trump I know diamonds don't break and I have no choice.
The best I can see without being DF is to win the club in hand, draw one more round of trumps, play two top diamonds (bad news from West), diamond ruff, club to hand, diamond ruff, ace of hearts, heart ruff, Queen of diamonds discarding a spade and the last two trumps hoping for a very implausible major suit squeeze.
On a spade lead the pointed squeeze is now pretty certain but the entries for it have gone. Instead I rise & hope diamonds break. No-one sane would underlead the SK at trick one when the SA is massively likely to be in declarer's hand from the auction.
By "don't break" I assume you mean 5-1 (or 6-0) otherwise it's cold in the obvious fashion.
I also assume from the auction that East is the hand with 5 diamonds.
I can't see us squeezing West in the majors, as East must surely have a heart guard.
There can't be a double squeeze, because if diamonds don't break we need two heart ruffs in hand (or two diamond ruffs in dummy) to get up to 12 tricks so one of our menaces will disappear.
So the only person we can squeeze is East, whom we now need to have the SK.
So win the club lead in hand (assuming everyone follows).
Take another top trump from hand.
Ace of hearts, heart ruff high.
Club to the 10, heart ruff high.
Spade to dummy's ace, last trump squeezing East in the pointed suits.
This is all very well, but goes off if West has the SK and diamonds are 4-2.
So in practice I think I go off unless West's 2H overcall promised at least 10 cards in the majors (unlikely). If that's the case, then as soon as West follows to the second trump I know diamonds don't break and I have no choice.
The best I can see without being DF is to win the club in hand, draw one more round of trumps, play two top diamonds (bad news from West), diamond ruff, club to hand, diamond ruff, ace of hearts, heart ruff, Queen of diamonds discarding a spade and the last two trumps hoping for a very implausible major suit squeeze.
On a spade lead the pointed squeeze is now pretty certain but the entries for it have gone. Instead I rise & hope diamonds break. No-one sane would underlead the SK at trick one when the SA is massively likely to be in declarer's hand from the auction.
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Posted 2005-July-20, 22:38
The squeeze is in fact on as opening leader holds KTxxx KJT9x x xx
Note that despite the fact that pd holds 4 card H support, the H are so small that dummy's 8 is indeed a threat.
Pd's comment - after the fact - was that I should have realised that there was a possible squeeze and led a S to break up he entries. Yeah sure! He said, no sane declarer would let it run. Anyone for the S lead based on this reasoning?
Note that despite the fact that pd holds 4 card H support, the H are so small that dummy's 8 is indeed a threat.
Pd's comment - after the fact - was that I should have realised that there was a possible squeeze and led a S to break up he entries. Yeah sure! He said, no sane declarer would let it run. Anyone for the S lead based on this reasoning?
"The King of Hearts a broadsword bears, the Queen of Hearts a rose." W. H. Auden.
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Posted 2005-July-21, 02:19
So I've gone off if West promised 5-5 in the majors, made it otherwise.
Should you lead a spade? No, that's insane. If you are going to lead a major to break up entries, you should lead a heart. There's no reason to know which major will attack entries the most, so you may as well pick the safer one. Listening to the auction, North showed a positive in clubs and the ace of hearts and South jumped to a grand slam. I would have expected more club honours in North and the Ace of spades in South's hand for this auction, in which case the spade could be giving a cheap trick away.
Should you lead a spade? No, that's insane. If you are going to lead a major to break up entries, you should lead a heart. There's no reason to know which major will attack entries the most, so you may as well pick the safer one. Listening to the auction, North showed a positive in clubs and the ace of hearts and South jumped to a grand slam. I would have expected more club honours in North and the Ace of spades in South's hand for this auction, in which case the spade could be giving a cheap trick away.
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Posted 2005-July-23, 22:50
A dummy reversal simple squeeze. Win the lead in hand with an honour. Heart to the ace. Ruff a heart high. Spade to the ace (Vienna coup). Ruff another heart high. High club. Club to the dummy. Ultimate club. If diamonds are 3-3 or the hand with four has the spade king, lights out.
Question. What do you do with a small spade out???
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