Hi all
Little to tell. Here’s a +12 imp story from Star yesterday.
René (North) opened a strong . He found out the giant fit in
before the heavy interference in
obstructed too much. Imagining a stiff
in my hand was a bit of a gamble, but paid out very well when he jumped to the cold slam in
(only 24 hcp together!).
Here’s a nice Dutch Squeeze from (and by) Martin:
A normal board from just another night at the bridge club.
The auction was not very exciting: pass – pass – pass – 1 – pass – 2
– a.p.
I was declarer and West started with three rounds of and switched to a
. With five obvious losers (three
, one
and one
) it seems normal to take the
with the King, pull trumps and play a
diamond. However, not completely awake on this partscore, I took the
with the Ace after which I started thinking. As I had removed the safe entry to the
King, the best line is probably to play two rounds of trumps, before surrendering a
to maximize the changes in case the
split 4-1. I, however, played three rounds of
before I played the
Queen. North took and returned the fourth
.
On the last West was caught in a Dutch squeeze (patented by Bob Slavenburg). If I would have had a
less and the
Jack instead, West had to keep the
Ten guarded to prevent declarer from overtaking the Jack. In that case East still has a
stopper. West had no idea, discarded a
and there it was: the overtrick.