{"id":3009,"date":"2020-09-10T17:51:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T22:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2020-09-10T17:51:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T22:51:17","slug":"risky-squeeze-for-overtrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/2020\/09\/10\/risky-squeeze-for-overtrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Risky Squeeze for Overtrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2020\/09\/3N2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3010\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2020\/09\/3N2-300x204.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2020\/09\/3N2-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2020\/09\/3N2.png 721w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>At the Shore Bridge Club with Jane Havighurst today, I risked one overtrick at 3N to gain a second. I won the Club lead on the board, tested the Diamonds with the Ace, and took the Spade finesse. Now I could count 10 tricks: 2 Spades, H Ace, 5 Dimaonds, and 2 Clubs. To squeeze out an eleventh required rectifying the count, so I ducked a Heart. Had West continued with Spades or Hearts, I would not have been able to set up another Club trick, but as I expected, he continued Clubs. Now at the end by the time I have SA8 H4 in hand and HA7 S2 on the board, East can no longer be guarding both Hearts and Spades. 3N+2 was worth 96.4%, tying one other pair whose opponents early misdiscarded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Shore Bridge Club with Jane Havighurst today, I risked one overtrick at 3N to gain a second. I won the Club lead on the board, tested the Diamonds with the Ace, and took the Spade finesse. Now I could count 10 tricks: 2 Spades, H Ace, 5 Dimaonds, and 2 Clubs. To squeeze [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}