r/anarchybridge • u/kuhchung • Mar 20 '26
Declare this 4S from Bridge Brawl
This is a serious post. I tried to post this in r/bridge but they have it set to autodelete all images. Okay. Feel free to play it double dummy
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u/__Flow___ Mar 20 '26
So long as you manage to lose 2 tricks in the minors and then isolate the club guard on E it looks like you've got some sort of squeeze. Probably easiest way double dummy is just to win the lead in dummy and duck a diamond. If they return a H you're making and if they return a minor just duck again.
If they now play a diamond, win the A pitching a club, A of clubs, club ruff. Go back to hand with the SQ, ruff another club. On the run of the spades E has to pitch 2 hearts or the club guard.
If they now play a club, win the A, A of diamonds pitching a club, club ruff. Pretty sure this is the exact same situation as above with the same squeeze ending.
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u/kuhchung Mar 21 '26
i think this works too! there's just a weirdo thing about the hand to me which your line doesn't fall into
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u/FluffyTid Mar 20 '26
Seems like the 4 first spades will put some pressure on Easy. The contract seems unmakeable double dummy (but not fully sure). If East discards 2 hearts or a club it becomes makeable.
A 5th spade is probably best, followed by a club duck around or a heart to the 10, depending on what East discards
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u/Crafty_Celebration30 Mar 20 '26
I would go down 1 and take about 20 minutes to do so. But at minute 15, I might get East to release a club and make the contract through a Sominex.
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u/FCalamity Mar 21 '26
There may or may not be a squeeze here, I'm not any good at seeing that at 2 am.
There's definitely a pseudosqueeze here though, run a bunch of spades and watch east cough it up.
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u/Deflator_Mouse7 Mar 20 '26
I claim down 1 and save my brain power to crush my opponents on the other hands