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North ♠︎5432 ♥︎432 ♦︎AK4 ♣︎QJ10 |
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| West ♠︎76 ♥︎65 ♦︎8765 ♣︎AK432 |
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East ♠︎KQJ1098 ♥︎87 ♦︎Q109 ♣︎65 |
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| WillHaack ♠︎A ♥︎AKQJ109 ♦︎J32 ♣︎987 |
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Once again the bidding box is wrong, east dealt and bid 2S, south overcalled 3H, and north took south to game.
West played 3 rounds of clubs, east ruffed the third round and returned a spade to declarer's ace. I drew trumps and on the second trump when east showed out, I took a (mis)count of the hand. I marked RHO with 1 heart, because I forgot to count the heart played when he ruffed. Despite the miscount, I knew that trumps were removed from the enemy's resources.
My next mistake was that I played a diamond to the ace and ruffed a spade in order to "isolate the threat." Normally when performing a squeeze, it doesn't help to have two top cards like the AK. You can typically play one of them first to help build a count of the hand. So I figured eh, why not?1 However for a trump squeeze, as I have learned, it is necessary to keep two entries to dummy for the case where right hand opponent is guarding the two suits. If LHO guarded the two suits, on the final heart I could discard a spade or diamond according to what LHO did. But with RHO holding the threat cards, I need to have a trump to get back to my hand after I block the suit where I hold the entries to dummy.
- Sometime's this is mandatory, and it is referred to as removing the ambiguity as per Kelsey in his first book on squeezes. Playing off the A from AK in a squeeze is never? necessary double dummy, but when you can't peak at your opponent's cards you may need to play one of the top honors earlier in the play to know which suit has been abandoned by the enemy. [↩]