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The Crocodile Coup is a play in the game contract bridge.It is executed by the defense: specifically by the second hand to play to a trick.It is the play of a higher card than might seem necessary, to keep a run of honors from being blocked by a singleton honor being in the other hand with either no entry back to the remaining tricks, or having to return the lead to declarer who can promptly ...
card reading, also known as counting the hand; dummy reversal; endplay; coups; squeezes; suit combinations play; safety play; applying the principle of restricted choice; applying the theory of vacant places; applying percentages and probabilities
Slam-seeking conventions are codified artificial bids used in the card game contract bridge. Bidding and making a small slam (12 tricks) or grand slam (13 tricks) yields high bonuses ranging from 500 to 1500 points. However, the risk is also high as failure to fulfill the slam contract also means failure to score the bonus points for a game ...
N W E S ♠ J 10 9 8 ♥ 5 4 ♥ 7 ♦ 6 5 ♦ J 10 9 8 7 ♣ K Q 10 6 5 ♣ 9 8 7 Lead: ♣ K ♠ Q 4 ♥ K Q J 10 9 8 ♦ A K Q ♣ A J South is in a 6 ♥ contract with 11 top tricks on the ♣ K lead. To perform a simple squeeze, South would have to lose a trick at some point to rectify the count. This will not work on this hand because the only menaces South has are in clubs and spades ...
When the South leads the ♣ 2 (the squeeze card), West must keep his ♥ A (menaced by dummy's king) and gives up his spade guard (spades being the double menace). In the same trick (this is therefore a simultaneous double squeeze), East must keep his ♦ Q (menaced by declarer's jack), and is forced to discard his low spade.
The forcing of an opponent to choose between establishing one or more extra tricks in the suit led and losing the opportunity to win a trick in the suit led. Scissors coup. The Scissors coup is so named because it cuts communications between defenders, most commonly by discarding a key card from either the declarer's own hand or dummy.
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!
East returns a trump (a red card would reduce the situation to other sorts of squeeze ending). The declarer has 7 spade tricks, a heart, a club, and two diamonds. The twelfth trick can be obtained by compound squeeze: assuming only East guards clubs, he will have to ultimately unguard one of red suits on the first squeeze card; that suit will ...