Bridge

[jack]

That was more like it. I declared just about every contract in sight, played with Andy with a nice 1M-4M vibe going on, messed up some 3H contracts, stopped in several correct part-scores, didn't bid an unbiddable slam, and managed a decent squeeze in a 5C contract that should have been 3NT[1].

[1] I can't quite remember the layout now. It wasn't perfect -- technically if the opponents had known to guard different suits they could have kept it, but it went through textbookly.

ETA: And of course, we managed to correctly bid to 5H, despite one of us bidding blackwood and one of us bidding gerber :)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Just to point out, a squeeze requires there to be no defence. If it works due to misdiscarding then it is a pseudo-squeeze.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, thank you. (Who was that?)

I'm not actually positive at this juncture, I tried to reconstruct it, and give a proper analysis, but it got conflated in my mind; but I was sufficiently enthused I wanted to tell about it. LHO thought it was a squeeze, but RHO should also have been able to keep one of the relevant cards. But that might have meant promoting one of the other little cards, I can't say for sure. Possibly it wasn't a squeeze from the start but became so when they incautiously both discarded the wrong x about half way through.