[eagles123]

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This is a slightly altered hand from one on Monday that came up, I think it's a good hand for N/B

the opps lead a spade.

if you look to draw trumps, on the first two rounds both opps follow

possibly theres a squeeze or something but thats not the point

its matchpoints

Thanks

Eagles

[wank]

there's no squeezing, even if spades are 5-2 in the same hand as long diamonds: as soon as you concede a club to rectify the count, they return a spade and cut your link to dummy's spade menace.

edited out the rest of it because i wasn't paying enough attention to which forum it's in

[Cyberyeti]

Spoiler

Clearly the only issue is diamonds not breaking. If diamonds are 4-1 with the long diamonds with the 2 trumps, if you draw trumps first, then play diamonds, you lose a diamond and a club. If you play diamonds after 2 trumps, the second one gets ruffed, they cash a club but you can then ruff your 4th diamond establishing the 5th so it's a wash, 11 tricks.

Where playing diamonds first gains is where the same hand has 4 diamonds and 3 trumps as now you make 12.