[eagles123]

This hand came up on BBO I was impressed by my (random) P's play to make it

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trick 1 ♥6 ♥2 ♥9 ♥10
trick 2 ♠J ♠2 ♠5 ♦4
how do you play


thanks

Eagles

[rhm]

Remarkable lead given that South holds ♠T98732, yet choose to lead a heart

Against most defenders the diamond discard will be from a 5 card (or longer suit) suit.
Accordingly I do not see much hope for the contract, unless the ♣K is with North.
If that is the case North will come under pressure when you run the spades.
(You could play South for ♣Kx and later squeeze North in the minors, but this is against the odds)

I expect a layout similar to

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On the fourth spade you discard a club from hand and cash the ace of hearts.
What does North keep? What are North last 7 cards?
Since North is likely to hold 5 diamonds originally, there is not much scope for deception
If North does not keep 4 cards in clubs you can simply play a small club to the queen and establish 3 club tricks.
If North does keep 4 cards in clubs you can simply play diamonds from the top and either endplay North or the queen will drop.
Either way you come to 12 tricks easily.

Rainer Herrmann

[Cyberyeti]

Is this any better than heart to the A, club towards the Q, if N doesn't take the K, duck a club in both hands next and play the simple squeeze in the minors.

The end position I'm looking at is:

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With N having no good discard.

This way I survive if S has the miracle minor suit holdings ♣K/♦Q10/Q9

[mikeh]

As with many hands on which a relatively straightforward squeeze (or two) is available, the key is not to be distracted by the presence of a J, which tempts the less experienced player into thinking of a finesse. The trap is that once one 'sees' a line, it can be difficult to reject it, and as beginning bridge players we are soon taught to take finesses

Were West to hold Kxx in diamonds, we'd see no line to 12 tricks that didn't involve a squeeze.

I like rainer's plan...it was what sprang to mind as soon as S shows out in spades.

Another point to this type of hand is that when you can make an opp make decisions before you do, then you should instinctively favour that approach, so long as you are not going to screw your communications. So run the spades, pay attention, and the only decision point for you comes on the 4th spade, by which time you will have see 4 pitches from N. That's a lot of information.

[gszes]

I must be missing something as usual=== What in the play (aside
from the surprise that s began with 6 spades) makes it so impossible
for s to have begun with QT Q9 Qxx??? the heart lead is anything but
definitive (I like it BTW) so why the huge assumption that N cannot
have started with something like 6 hearts and therefore have the same
number of empty spaces as south (with their 6 spades)? I agree that
a squeeze against n appears most likely after trick 2 but to just
go and assume that is the case with little information seems wrong.

Cyberyeti comes to hand (I assume with a heart at trick 3) and leads
toward the club Q--this never loses the contract outright and still
leaves us with the dia suit to fall back on in case the K is with rho.
There is no need to cash ones tricks off the top and put all of your
eggs in the squeeze basket when sometimes a simple finesse may work.

If the squeeze against lho in the minors is destined to work there is
no harm to be done by playing low to the club Q first (at trick 4 before
we run all our winners and create others for the opps)

[Lovera]

It should altough work a delayed (three losers with CLE in two suits) duck diamond/club squeeze yet.(Lovera)

[nige1]

eagles123, on 2014-June-05, 03:51, said:

This hand came up on BBO I was impressed by my (random) P's play to make it

trick 1 ♥6 ♥2 ♥9 ♥10
trick 2 ♠J ♠2 ♠5 ♦4
how do you play

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Similar to Cyberyeti:
After winning ♥T, ♠J, continue with ♥A, ♣A and lead a ♣ towards ♣Q.
If South has singleton ♣K or North ducks ♣K, then cash major winners to strip-squeeze North in ♦.
If ♣Q loses to South's doubleton ♣K, then cash major winners and finesse ♦J, hoping South has ♦Q and you can squeeze North in the minors.
If North wins ♣K, then cash major winners for a minor-suit squeeze.

[Lovera]

I have a light impression (but perhaps i'm wrong) that delayed duck, a secondary squeeze, it is less known on refering to the other types.