Thursday, December 29, 2005 3:50 PM
Hand Evaluation – Declarer Play ( Trump
Squeeze )
PITBULLS:
The simple trump squeeze is a “criss-cross” squeeze
that succeeds because the last trump can become an additional entry when needed. Since the defender must guard an
extra card to prevent the suit from being established by ruffing
it out , the squeeze culminates early. The 2nd to last winner is
the squeeze card with the count rectified at one.
With a trump as a possible entry , declarer does not
need to worry about “Vienna Coups” . The
ruff only occurs after the squeeze
is executed .
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You are in 7 ♦ with a heart
lead. In 7NT you would have only one alternative ,
Cash the top clubs ( Vienna coup) and hope the person with the club queen has 5♠.
In a trump contract , you have the trump squeeze as a choice.
You do not need a Vienna coup with a trump squeeze as the ability to ruff keeps
you out of trouble for an additional entry. The trump squeeze will work if
either defender has 4♠ and the club queen. Much
better odds
RHO has ♠1098x ♣Qxx when declarer leads her 2nd
last trump discarding a club
from dummy. Your play. In a trump squeeze
You not do any ruffing until after the
squeeze works. When you do it early , you have blown
the squeeze. If the defender let a club go , no ruffing needed at all. Just the threat of a ruff to establish a suit was good enough to make
the trump squeeze work.
The trump squeeze is a simple squeeze meaning one defender & two
suits. However the defender is “extra busy” due to the additional card needed
to prevent ruffing out a card for suit establishment.
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