Triple Sqeeze.

Over dinner, Lotan Fisher (East) of Israel shown me a neat deal he played in the 5th session of the Mixed Pairs Qualification.

Board 11. Dealer North. East-West Vul.

Dealer: North Vul: None	North ♠ Q76 ♥ K87654 ♦   ♣ 10876
West ♠ AKJ9852  ♥ 92  ♦ J2 ♣ K9		East ♠ 10 ♥ A103 ♦ AKQ4  ♣ AQ432
	South ♠ 43  ♥ QJ  ♦ 10987653 ♣ J5

The contract : 6NT by Lotan-East. The lead Q ♥    

At trick one, Lotan ducked the Q♥ , 2, 4, 3. Won the J♥ , 9, 5, ace. At trick 3 played 4 ♦ , 5, jack, North discarded 6♥ . On the run of the next two diamonds North could discard his hearts in comfort.

However at trick 6, on the ace ♦ , 7, dummy discard another low spade, North was caught in a triple squeeze!

-Discard a spade, dummy’s spades would be good for five tricks.

-Discard a club, then declarer’s clubs would be good for five tricks.

-Discard the king of hearts then the ten of hearts from West would further squeeze North between spades and clubs.

When North discarded a spade, Lotan read the situation correctly and played Ace, King of spades, dropped North’s queen. Made 12 tricks in 6NT for +990 and 94.11%.

Very well done.

Thomas, Marie, Michael, Lotan, Pony, Yuval, Cristina, Tomasz and Barbara.