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So you are in 6NT.. now make it!

#1 User is offline   Rossoneri 

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Posted 2009-January-20, 09:20

Scoring: IMP

Bidding goes 1♠-2♣-2♦-2♥-6NT


West leads the J♠.

South at the other table is an experienced junior international. Do you have any extra considerations now?

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Posted 2009-January-20, 09:24

I rectify the count on that lead and see what develops.

 wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


 rbforster, on 2012-May-20, 21:04, said:

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Posted 2009-January-20, 09:44

It's obviously a bit old-fashioned, but at our table South didn't feel the need to jump to 6NT early in the auction and we played the hand in 7D.

Anyway, in 6NT it seems fairly obvious to duck the opening lead. West will do something horrible now, which is probably to play a heart.

Who has the spade guard?
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Posted 2009-January-20, 11:03

Agree with Frances.
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Posted 2009-January-20, 11:36

Duck, hope for a heart or club return, played low in dummy, which might draw out ♥Q, ♥J, ♣J or ♣10 from East, setting up a squeeze or a heart finesse.
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Posted 2009-January-20, 12:11

Duck. If they play a heart, come down to:

with the lead in dummy. Play ♦A throwing a spade. Then (probably) play ♠AK, throwing dummy's club unless it's good.

If I read the ending correctly, this works if:
- Spades break
- RHO has the spade guard and LHO has the club guard - there's a double squeeze
- RHO has the spade guard, the club guard and both heart honours - he's triple squeezed.
- RHO has the spade guard and one heart honour - RHO is guard-squeezed and forced to unguard clubs, thus setting up a double squeeze.
- LHO has the spade guard and both heart honours

After ♦A, if I thought LHO had the spade and club guards, I could cash ♥A to squeeze him instead. To play for this layout, I'd probably have to have seen his hand.

This post has been edited by gnasher: 2009-January-20, 12:14

... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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Posted 2009-January-20, 12:59

There are two club guards and two heart guards. Assuming we don't get lucky at trick 2, we can mark the holder of four spade cards with both guards in either suit and simple squeeze him (but we have to guess the suit right).

Is there a way to squeeze him without guessing hearts or clubs? This is beyond me...
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Posted 2009-January-20, 15:49

I should add this: RHO wins the first trick with the Q and returns the 2 of ♠.

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Posted 2009-January-20, 15:51

FrancesHinden, on Jan 20 2009, 03:44 PM, said:

It's obviously a bit old-fashioned, but at our table South didn't feel the need to jump to 6NT early in the auction and we played the hand in 7D.

Anyway, in 6NT it seems fairly obvious to duck the opening lead. West will do something horrible now, which is probably to play a heart.

Who has the spade guard?

My bad of course, for jumping to 6NT, my defence to that is that it's my very first board playing with this particular partner opposite me!

When dummy came down, I was very disappointed not to be in diamonds instead of NT, and we actually lost 12 imps on the board as 7D was bid and made at the other table. Not that I knew this when I was declaring though!
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