Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Stanford 1/4

I got to 3N on these cards (don't ask)

-------K3
-------KJT873
-------J94
-------97
965-----------QJT
AQ9-----------52
Q873----------T652
542-----------QJT2
-------A8742
-------64
-------AK
-------AK86

Diamond lead, won in hand. Heart finesse, holding. Club back, repeat the heart finesse. LHO flies A, leads another diamond. Win in hand, cash CK. Cross to dummy's SK, run hearts. On the final heart, we have

-------x
-------x
-------J
-------

96------------QJ
--------------
Q-------------
--------------Q

-------A8
-------
-------
-------8

RHO can't pitch the club, so he parts with a spade. Declarer discards a club, and now LHO is squeezed.

Positional double squeeze!

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