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#1 User is offline   timouthy 

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Posted 2019-June-29, 16:45

I played this hand recently in the Main Club. After a spade lead, I pulled trump and then tried to discard board's spade losers on club suit winners. When clubs didn't break, I resorted to a squeeze using boards trumps. In the two card ending, north hangs onto a spade and a diamond and south hangs onto a club and a diamond. I pitch my club and cash two diamond tricks to make it!

I have URL link below. Would like to know how to copy actual bbo hand picture to this post if anyone out there knows.

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Posted 2019-June-29, 18:00


Timouthy writes 'I played this hand recently in the Main Club. After a spade lead, I pulled trump and then tried to discard board's spade losers on club suit winners. When clubs didn't break, I resorted to a squeeze using boards trumps. In the two card ending, north hangs onto a spade and a diamond and south hangs onto a club and a diamond. I pitch my club and cash two diamond tricks to make it! I have URL link below. Would like to know how to copy actual bbo hand picture to this post if anyone out there knows.'
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Pretty pseudo-squeeze :) although South can defeat it by chucking s, keeping black winners :(
Reply to see how to edit Timouthy's URL to display the deal in a BBO post (or HTML page). Partial explanation....
-- hv abbreviation for https: ... handviewer.html (in BBO posts).
-- lin old BBO handviewer format.
-- pn name player
-- md make deal.
-- ah head board.
-- mb make bid.
-- pc play card.
-- width/height of diagram.and
-- comments.

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Posted 2019-June-30, 03:18

Good to make the contract but as Nigel pointed out precise defending does beat it. However, the interesting thing is how to bid it sensibly to 6, or 7 if you fancy a gamble not knowing West's hand.

Give West KQJx Kx Axxx Axx and 7 is a possible contract.

Maybe Stayman followed by the Smolen convention is the way to correctly bid East's hand if West doesn't show a 4 card major in reply to Stayman. (Please correct me if I'm wrong)
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Posted 2019-June-30, 04:10

View PostFelicityR, on 2019-June-30, 03:18, said:

Good to make the contract but as Nigel pointed out precise defending does beat it. However, the interesting thing is how to bid it sensibly to 6, or 7 if you fancy a gamble not knowing West's hand.

Give West KQJx Kx Axxx Axx and 7 is a possible contract.

Maybe Stayman followed by the Smolen convention is the way to correctly bid East's hand if West doesn't show a 4 card major in reply to Stayman. (Please correct me if I'm wrong)

I think the transfer is best, but surely it qualifies for a super accept. After that one splinters a minor, or shows spades as second suit, or as a control, according to system. We would control bid directly over the super accept and stop in 6H, knowing that we have no sure place to ditch a spade and opponents have 14 points here.
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Posted 2019-July-01, 14:56


Timouthy writes 'I played this hand recently in the Main Club. After a spade lead, I pulled trump and then tried to discard board's spade losers on club suit winners. When clubs didn't break, I resorted to a squeeze using boards trumps. In the two card ending, north hangs onto a spade and a diamond and south hangs onto a club and a diamond. I pitch my club and cash two diamond tricks to make it! I have URL link below. Would like to know how to copy actual bbo hand picture to this post if anyone out there knows.'
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7 is a reasonable contract, making, for example, when s are 4-3. but it seems hard to reach with confidence.

Also, swap T with 8 (as on the left) and Timouthy's iine works, unless defenders lead a .

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Posted 2019-July-02, 07:28

View Postnige1, on 2019-July-01, 14:56, said:

7 is a reasonable contract, making, for example, when s are 4-3. but it seems hard to reach with confidence.

The 4-3 split is only 63%, not great odds when the small slam is near certain. I guess it depends to some extent on the field, at lower levels some point counters would not even be in 6 here.
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