Saturday, June 16, 2007

Test three.. .a nice compound squeeze

DealerN
Vul-
Lead4
 
QT642
AK3
T72
T8
J95
T964
43
J643
3
Q8752
J986
Q72
AK87
J
AKQ5
AK95


WestNorthEastSouth
 pp2
p2p3
p3p4
p4p4NT
p5p5NT
p6p7NT
ppp


This will be the first new hand in chapter 4 of the identifying squeeze blogger book, assuming I can get the template thing working as I know it should. This is a typical compound squeeze where save 7 spades was bypassed to play in 7NT.

3 comments:

firmit.bridge said...

Looks good - does it not?

Encountered any problems?

Len said...

The format looks great. The odds for making 7N on a heart lead don't.

bboinquiry said...

Hi Len

While you are correct, the contract is unmakable on a heart opening lead, i think if you look at the hand diagram, you will see that the opening lead is specified as a diamond. This is found in the upper left hand corner after dealer and vulnerability.

OF course a heart lead removes an entry necessary for the compound squeeze to work. One could give East a spade more, and south a heart more to make it "cold". But this was a real world hand, not something contrived.