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We hope you've been enjoying Adam Parrish's lesson videos about Squeezes. You can view Lesson 3 - The Double Squeeze below.

And some news! We have scheduled four new live lessons with Adam about sacrifice bids in bridge. These will be hour-long interactive lessons that you can attend live in our virtual classroom or watch later via replay.

Coming Soon: Sacrifice Bids in Bridge

with Adam Parrish

Knowing when to sacrifice is one of the trickier decisions in bridge. It’s also essential to know what to bid after your opponents have sacrificed. This includes the infamous Forcing Pass. Sacrifice contracts can present unique problems to both declarer and defender. I think this is quite a difficult and interesting subject, and I haven’t seen a lot of lessons on it. I’m excited!

1. February 21 – When to sacrifice
2. February 28 – When the opponents sacrifice
3. March 7 – Playing a sacrifice
4. March 14 – Defending a sacrifice

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These lessons are already included for members of Adam's Monday class and are discounted for all our other LBO classes. Suitable for both Standard and Acol players.

Now, back to squeezes!

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Lesson 3 – The Double Squeeze

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What if we have potential winners in three suits? The double squeeze!

We’ve seen how a squeeze works with two potential winners, so how do things change when we have three potential winners? It’s still the same three basic ingredients.

• Potential winners – we have 3 potential winners here not just the 2.
• One loser – we still need only one trick left that we might lose.
• Transportation – making sure we can get to our potential winner once a defender is forced to make it a winner.

In this example, we have a threat card in 3 suits – ST, DQ and the HT. We also have 3 out of 4 winners (CA, HK, HA). When we cash our CA what does W throw? If they throw the DK then our DQ will win, so they have to throw a heart. We then throw the DQ from N. What can E throw? If E throws the SQ, then our ST is immediately a winner. Therefore, E has to throw a small heart. Now the hearts split 2 – 2 and our HT is winner! There was nothing EW could do about it.

So, what did we need to keep track of during the play? All we needed to know was that W has the DK which is the only diamond higher than the DQ and someone has a spade higher than the ST. Surprisingly, not that much to remember! Then we just play our tricks in a sensible order discarding the cards when we know they can no longer become a winner and our heart became a winner.

After watching the video above, try playing all four hands for one of the boards below:

Play through the hand

Any questions? Leave a question or comment on the Youtube page here: https://youtu.be/DWMEeoUyWPk

Review the previous lessons here:

1. https://learnbridgeonline.com/lesson/ap-what-is-a-squeeze-play-in-bridge/
2. https://learnbridgeonline.com/lesson/ap-the-ingredients-to-a-squeeze-play/

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Adam Parrish is among the top bridge teachers and authors in the United States. He has written five acclaimed books and writes a monthly column in the ACBL Bridge Bulletin. He teaches students all around the world, both online and in person in NYC. He is also one of the partners of Bridge Winners, the web’s premier bridge discussion site.

Adam teaches weekly online bridge lessons and play sessions at Learn Bridge Online. Members can join the lessons live or watch via replay later.