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Franco's Bridge Blog: Progressive Triple Squeeze
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Great minds think about ideas. Warped minds think about bridge hands. Sunday, August 21, 2011. I was throwing some cards around on BBO and almost without realizing it executed a progressive triple squeeze:. 9824; K 8 5 3. 9827; Q 7. 9824; Q 9 7 4. 9824; J 10. 9827; K 6. 9827; A J 5 3 2. 9824; A 6 2. 9827; 10 9 8 4. Next, a spade was led. I won this in dummy and played ♥. J, covered and won. What does West do on the ♣10? AK, ♠8 subjects him to a subsequent red suit squeeze. August 21, 2011 at 4:29 PM.
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Franco's Bridge Blog: April 2011
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Great minds think about ideas. Warped minds think about bridge hands. Monday, April 11, 2011. From a KO match. 4 led, RHO plays the Ace and another diamond. Say you try the Jack and it loses to the Queen, a 3rd diamond coming back. Now what? Hearts are not 5-0. RHO has apparently bid a bit crazily, and must have the ♠KQ and the ♣A, and probably the ♣Q. So, run hearts as RHO pitches 3 low spades and 2 low clubs to get to this 4 card ending:. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Coup For You.
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Franco's Bridge Blog: March 2010
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Great minds think about ideas. Warped minds think about bridge hands. Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Emotional highs and lows of a hand. Andy] This one is just an amusing story, from the second day of the Platinums. You pick up:. 9824; 10 8 7 6 5. 9827; 10 8. The auction starts a strong 2♣ on your left, 2NT by partner showing 2 nontouching suits, double on your right. Gee, I wonder what suits partner has. Partner might have remembered in time, but LHO came to the rescue, bidding 3 ♥. 9 7 2 ♦. Easily goes for...
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Franco's Bridge Blog: May 2010
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Great minds think about ideas. Warped minds think about bridge hands. Tuesday, May 18, 2010. PP 1st Final Board 26. 9824; K J 2. 9827; J 9 5. 9824; Q 9 8 5 4 3. 9824; A 10 7 6. 9827; K 4 2. 9827; A Q 3. 9827; 10 8 7 6. South successfully preempted us out of our spade fit and earned a good board for his choice. By South, 3, -140, 5.5/17. Links to this post. Monday, May 17, 2010. PP 1st Final Board 25. 9824; Q 3 2. 9827; A 8 7 3. 9824; 10 8 7. 9824; 9 4. 9827; K J 5 2. 9827; Q 10 6 4. 9824; A K J 6 5.
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Franco's Bridge Blog: A Deep Finesse Gem
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Great minds think about ideas. Warped minds think about bridge hands. Monday, July 16, 2012. A Deep Finesse Gem. From the LM Pairs in Philly, 2nd Semi board 7 (hands rotated):. T72 J32 K AK9764 KQ43 65 T9654 AQ7 952 QT76 8 J532 AJ98 K8 AJ843 QT. Deep Finesse asserts that 3N is cold. Try to work it out on the HT lead around to the HK. Hints later. July 18, 2012 at 12:10 PM. July 21, 2012 at 3:30 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Index of my squeeze articles. Don Kersey's Squeeze Web. A Coup For You.
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Franco's Bridge Blog: August 2011
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Great minds think about ideas. Warped minds think about bridge hands. Wednesday, August 24, 2011. GIB shows how it's done. BBO's robot bridge player, GIB, did nicely on this hand:. 9824; J 10 5 3. 9827; 10 5 4 3. 9824; A K Q 7 4. 9824; 9 2. 9827; A J 7 6 2. 9824; 8 6. 9827; K Q 9 8. After an uncontested auction to 3N, West led a top spade and cashed 2 more (heart shakes), then switched to a diamond. Next declarer played ♣K which was ducked. Q to cash ♠J, what are you going to pitch? Links to this post.
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Franco's Bridge Blog: July 2010
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Great minds think about ideas. Warped minds think about bridge hands. Sunday, July 25, 2010. All the compound squeezes. 1 There are type-R (2 double threats opposite a lone basic menace), type-L (1 double threat opposite a basic menace and an adjacent double threat), and Alternate Threat (like type-L, except the adjacent double threat suit also has an alternate threat in the other hand). In both cases, one hand has only one menace, designated the "lone" menace. 5 The free suit is normally 2 winners with ...
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Franco's Bridge Blog: November 2012
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Great minds think about ideas. Warped minds think about bridge hands. Friday, November 23, 2012. Minor appearance in the NY Times bridge column. And, while I'm at it, here's one. From May. Read more! Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Index of my squeeze articles. Don Kersey's Squeeze Web. Tony Moon's squeeze books project. There was an error in this gadget. Some bridge blogs and other links. Costa Rica wrap up. Update- "Partnership Bidding at Bridge" Book Review. Free at the Bridge Table.
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Franco's Bridge Blog: GIB shows how it's done
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Great minds think about ideas. Warped minds think about bridge hands. Wednesday, August 24, 2011. GIB shows how it's done. BBO's robot bridge player, GIB, did nicely on this hand:. 9824; J 10 5 3. 9827; 10 5 4 3. 9824; A K Q 7 4. 9824; 9 2. 9827; A J 7 6 2. 9824; 8 6. 9827; K Q 9 8. After an uncontested auction to 3N, West led a top spade and cashed 2 more (heart shakes), then switched to a diamond. Next declarer played ♣K which was ducked. Q to cash ♠J, what are you going to pitch? Some bridge blogs and...
