Many years ago I remember a keen but weak player managing two genuine suicide squeezes (or technically dummy squeezed his own hand) within a week in a friendly lunchtime game in the office. The more memorable one was where he held KQx QJx KQJ Kxxx. He opened 1C, I replied 3C and RHO bid 3S. He bid 3N, all passed and West dutifully led the S*. Dummy held Ax xx 109xx AJ109x and our “hero” won in hand and played a club the the J losing to Qx. A spade came back and now a diamond is obvious but he ran off the clubs. You can see for yourselves the effect of dummy’s last club, where he had to unguard the H or ditch a D winner. The expression on his face exactly matched that on Wile-E-Coyote’s face when he realises he was walked off the cliff edge but hasn’t yet started to plummet.
I’m sure I’ve told this before but it seemed worth re-hashing.
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Hi Barry, Folks,
Many years ago I remember a keen but weak player managing two genuine suicide squeezes (or technically dummy squeezed his own hand) within a week in a friendly lunchtime game in the office. The more memorable one was where he held KQx QJx KQJ Kxxx. He opened 1C, I replied 3C and RHO bid 3S. He bid 3N, all passed and West dutifully led the S*. Dummy held Ax xx 109xx AJ109x and our “hero” won in hand and played a club the the J losing to Qx. A spade came back and now a diamond is obvious but he ran off the clubs. You can see for yourselves the effect of dummy’s last club, where he had to unguard the H or ditch a D winner. The expression on his face exactly matched that on Wile-E-Coyote’s face when he realises he was walked off the cliff edge but hasn’t yet started to plummet.
I’m sure I’ve told this before but it seemed worth re-hashing.
Regards,
Iain