Legend:
Green
= Menace Card; Blue
= Idle Card;
Red
= Trump
Criss-Cross 2-Trick Triple Squeeze
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In this variant of the 2-trick triple
squeeze, the lone threat and at least one of threats in the
two-threat hand have the blocked form typical of the criss-cross
squeeze. If neither threat is extended, then the other threat in the
two-threat hand will be a twin-entry threat, giving a pair of adjoint
positions:
Last free winner in 2-threat hand:
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A
J 2
A
9
2
A
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K Q
K Q
Q J 10
--
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J
3
2
A
K 3
2
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Last free winner in 1-threat hand:
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A
J 2
A
9
2
2
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K Q
K Q
Q J 10
--
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J
3
2
A
K 3
A
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On the club A, West can discard
- a spade, leaving a positional squeeze in hearts and diamonds,
or
- a heart, leaving a twin-entry squeeze in spades and diamonds,
or
- a diamond, leaving a criss-cross squeeze in spades and
hearts.
If the lone threat is extended but the other blocked threat is
not, then all three threats will be blocked, and the lone threat will
have two winners in the short hand, giving another pair of adjoint
positions:
Last free winner in 2-threat hand:
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A K
J 2
J
2
A
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Q J 10
K Q
K Q
--
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9 8
3
2
A
A
2
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Last free winner in 1-threat hand:
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A K
J 2
J
2
2
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Q J 10
K Q
K Q
--
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9 8
3
2
A
A
A
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On the club A, West can discard
- a spade, giving two tricks immediately, or
- a heart (diamond), leaving a criss-cross squeeze in
spades and diamonds (hearts).
If the lone threat is not extended, but the other blocked threat
is, then the third threat must have an entry, and there is a pair of
adjoint positions; when the last free winner lies opposite the lone
threat, the lone threat must be recessed:
Last free winner in 1-threat hand:
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A
J 10
2
A
J
--
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K Q
K Q
K Q
--
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J
3
2
A
2
A
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Last free winner in 2-threat hand:
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A
J 10
2
A
J
A
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K Q
K Q
K Q
--
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K
9
3
2
A
2
2
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On the club A, West can discard
- a spade, leaving a positional squeeze in hearts and diamonds,
or
- a heart, giving two tricks immediately (in the second
position, South cashes spade A, heart A, spade K, diamond A,
hearts), or
- a diamond, leaving a criss-cross squeeze in spades and
hearts.
Finally, both blocked menaces can be extended; this requires the
lone threat to include two winners in the short hand (there is no
adjoint position in this case; if North has a diamond entry, then the
spade threat doesn't need to be extended, while if North doesn't have
a diamond entry, a heart discard defeats the squeeze):
Last free winner in 1-threat hand:
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A K
J 10
2
K
--
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Q J 10
K Q
A
--
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9 8
3
2
A
--
A
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On the club A, West can discard
- a spade or a heart, giving two tricks immediately, or
- a diamond, leaving a criss-cross squeeze in spades and
hearts.