[kgr]

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Opps lead 3th/low; signals udca.
Lead card 1st; South card underlined; winner bold:
1: ♣4-7-J-Q
2: ♦A-5-2-8
3: ♦K-6-4-T
4: ♦3-Q-9-♣2
5: ♥7-Q-8-6
6: ♦J-♣3-♣5-♦7
7: ♠A-6-2-3
8: ♠K-7-5-J
This is left:

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Do you agree with the play till now?
How do you continue?

[Quartic]

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I would now cash the ♠Q - if ♠ are 3-3 I'm home. Otherwise I can try for 3-3 ♥. I'm probably missing a squeeze.

[wyman]

There doesn't appear to be a squeeze on this hand if LHO's lead was 3/5. There's no entry in C for a dbl if LHO started with 3, and if LHO started with 5 clubs, the major squeeze is positional (and out of position).

However, if LHO made a deceptive lead of a low club and started 4144, now 2 rounds of hearts squeezes him in the blacks. So I think the right play here is HK, and if LHO shows out, you play for the black suit squeeze on LHO (this preserves a win if spades are 3-3 as well). Otherwise you hope for 3-3 hearts or 3-3 spades.

edit: This also wins when righty blows on the second heart and LHO started 4441

[BunnyGo]

There are a few different squeeze possibilities here. Save your club 9, it's threatening the K/J. Pitch a heart on the diamonds. Cash the spades. Then cross with a heart. You now know who has the long spades. If spades split, you're home. If E has both majors guarded...you're hosed. If E guards spades, it's free to play for a H/C squeeze on W (in fact, you just have). I don't see anything else to do.

As far as reading the lead, it's strange. Since he lead into your bid suit, and he had a longer suit to lead. If he doesn't have 5 clubs, it's weird. It's unfortunate though, as E has 8 cards in the major in that case. He may have led a 3 card suit (or falsecarded the lead), that's fine. We'll find out about the spades first and see where to go from there. If he made a GIB lead from a short suit, then the squeeze possibilities are many, but you'll find out when the Spades are tested if it's even possible.

[wyman]

also note that bunnygo is talking about the whole hand, and I'm just talking about the end position reached in OP

[kgr]

BunnyGo, on 2012-June-21, 17:34, said:

There are a few different squeeze possibilities here. Save your club 9, it's threatening the K/J. Pitch a heart on the diamonds. Cash the spades. Then cross with a heart. You now know who has the long spades. If spades split, you're home. If E has both majors guarded...you're hosed. If E guards spades, it's free to play for a H/C squeeze on W (in fact, you just have). I don't see anything else to do.

As far as reading the lead, it's strange. Since he lead into your bid suit, and he had a longer suit to lead. If he doesn't have 5 clubs, it's weird. It's unfortunate though, as E has 8 cards in the major in that case. He may have led a 3 card suit (or falsecarded the lead), that's fine. We'll find out about the spades first and see where to go from there. If he made a GIB lead from a short suit, then the squeeze possibilities are many, but you'll find out when the Spades are tested if it's even possible.

I played it against Jack.
This was the ending:

....♠Q4
....♥K43
♠.........♠T9
♥T52......♥J
♣KT........♣86
....♠8
....♥A9
....♣A9

As you noted the ♣9 is important and West is squeezed when you play ♠Q.

[kgr]

Quartic, on 2012-June-21, 14:26, said:

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I would now cash the ♠Q - if ♠ are 3-3 I'm home. Otherwise I can try for 3-3 ♥. I'm probably missing a squeeze.

&p=c4c7cjcqdad5d2d8dkd6d4dtd3dqd9c2h7hqh8h6djc3c5d7sas6s2s3sks7s5sj
That part is doing the trick to add the play? Did you add it manually or is there a tool for it?
(Note: When I open posts like this on my smartphone browser it crashes.)

[wyman]

Ah, nice. Missed the rounded squeeze against W. wd

[Quartic]

kgr, on 2012-June-22, 09:56, said:

&p=c4c7cjcqdad5d2d8dkd6d4dtd3dqd9c2h7hqh8h6djc3c5d7sas6s2s3sks7s5sj
That part is doing the trick to add the play? Did you add it manually or is there a tool for it?
(Note: When I open posts like this on my smartphone browser it crashes.)

I did it manually. I also added the known east and west cards.

[lowerline]

Looks like West started with J3-7x-Q765-KT864. Then East started with T976-JT8x-T8-J32. One down. But just maybe West had JT3-7-Q765-KT864 (this would correspond with East's H8). So SQ next.


Edit: I just saw your answer. I played the right card ;-)