[kgr]

MPs

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LHO leads ♥Q (opps play udca):
♥Q-♥3-♥2-♥A
♣3-♣K-♣A-♣5
♦3-♦5-♦Q-♦K
♦9-♦T-♦2-♦7
♦4-♦9-♦A-♦6
What is the best play from here? (It seems that LHO is 3=1 in D=C)

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EDIT: If you play a Heart then LHO plays the Ten and returns a small heart. What now?

[billw55]

I'll try a heart and duck it if west plays J or T. Maybe he'll give me a spade.

[ArtK78]

billw55, on 2013-March-21, 12:13, said:

I'll try a heart and duck it if west plays J or T. Maybe he'll give me a spade.

+1. I am leading the ♥6, and if LHO does not play the J or 10, I am running the 6. This only loses to 82 doubleton of hearts in RHO. It is right when RHO holds T2, J2 (hardly likely) or singleton 2. Based on the Landy call, I am playing LHO for 4 or 5 hearts.

Even if I am wrong and I lose to the ♥8, I will be able to throw LHO in with a heart to lead from his spades.

By the way, I am assuming that the ♣K is singleton, and that LHO has not made some remarkable falsecard with KJ of clubs.

[gszes]

ArtK78, on 2013-March-21, 13:03, said:

+1. I am leading the ♥6, and if LHO does not play the J or 10, I am running the 6. This only loses to 82 doubleton of hearts in RHO. It is right when RHO holds T2, J2 (hardly likely) or singleton 2. Based on the Landy call, I am playing LHO for 4 or 5 hearts.

Even if I am wrong and I lose to the ♥8, I will be able to throw LHO in with a heart to lead from his spades.

By the way, I am assuming that the ♣K is singleton, and that LHO has not made some remarkable falsecard with KJ of clubs.

I like the way art says remarkable (rather than bordering on insane)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

[kgr]

See edit of OP for continuation:
If you play a heart then LHO plays the Ten and return a heart if you duck. What now?

[billw55]

kgr, on 2013-March-21, 17:44, said:

See edit of OP for continuation:
If you play a heart then LHO plays the Ten and return a heart if you duck. What now?

What did east play on the second heart?

[kgr]

billw55, on 2013-March-22, 06:45, said:

What did east play on the second heart?

a small spade.

[nige1]

kgr, on 2013-March-21, 11:39, said:

MPs
LHO leads ♥Q (opps play udca):
♥Q-♥3-♥2-♥A
♣3-♣K-♣A-♣5
♦3-♦5-♦Q-♦K
♦9-♦T-♦2-♦7
♦4-♦9-♦A-♦6

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What is the best play from here? (It seems that LHO is 3=1 in D=C)

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IMO you should hvae finessed ♣7 and conceded a ♣, hoping to make 4 x ♣, 3 X ♦ and 3/4 X major tricks.

[billw55]

I'll take the hearts and diamond, and hook the club. If west bid 2♣ (both majors) with five hearts and three spades to the jack, then falsecarded from ♣KJ, at least I have a pretty cool story.

[kgr]

After reading an interesting squeeze document (squeeze refresher.pdf by Marvin French), I decided to set a deal profile in Jack: South, North and West all 12+ HCP. And see if could find any squeezes against West. This was the 3rd hand with this deal profile.

This is the situation after West returned a Heart:

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The funny thing is that not West, but East is squeezed. This is a guard squeeze?

(I didn't find this in the play).

[ArtK78]

kgr, on 2013-March-22, 11:02, said:

After reading an interesting squeeze document (squeeze refresher.pdf by Marvin French), I decided to set a deal profile in Jack: South, North and West all 12+ HCP. And see if could find any squeezes against West. This was the 3rd hand with this deal profile.

This is the situation after West returned a Heart:

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The funny thing is that not West, but East is squeezed. This is a guard squeeze?

(I didn't find this in the play).

Yes, it is a guard squeeze.

If South were on lead, he could lead the ♠Q intending to run it if not covered. When it is covered, it transfers the duty to guard spades from West to East. I believe that this is called a transfer squeeze. The transfer squeeze is a very straight-forward simple squeeze after the obligation to guard the key suit is transferred from one opponent to the other.

In both cases it is East, not West, who is subject to the squeeze. It is just a question of the nature of the holding being squeezed. In the guard squeeze, East is squeezed out of his guard in spades, subjecting West to a finesse. In the transfer squeeze, the menace in spades has been transferred from West to East, so that East is now subject to a simples squeeze.