[kfay]

Q109xx x AQ109xx x

w/r

RHO opens:

(1♣)-1♦-(1♥)-P
(1♠)-P-(3♣*)-P *invitational
(3NT)-?

[Phil]

huh?

[Hanoi5]

Is this an opening lead question? ♦T for me, please.

[kfay]

Where's karlson when I need him?

I agree that this one may be out of left field but I certainly thought about it.

[cherdanno]

I think you are taking the "double them on invitational auctions with suits breaking badly" thing a little far. Yes LHO made an invite but RHO is unlimited, he could have 18 hcp.
I admit it could go down 2 or 3 which improves your odds quite a bit, but I just see no reason to assume they can't take 5 club tricks and 3 major suit tricks off the top after winning your diamond lead.

[karlson]

Nah, not for me this time. Their tricks are coming from clubs, not spades. If partner has hearts bottled up and a club trick he might try the spec double himself.

[gszeszycki]

if this is an opening lead problem I choose dia Q if its a bidding problem i pass and hope we can set it since things seems to be breaking poorly.

[hanp]

Diamond queen would be bad if declarer has KJx and partner a doubleton. Since partner is the most likely to gain the lead later and RHO almost surely has the king, I would lead the diamond 10.

[OleBerg]

At a glance this might look like a toss-up..

But there is one really good reason not to double.

You take away partners chance to double for a heart lead. So a large post in the cost/benefit analasys, is the games that slip home, because we didn't lead the heart, that partner might have requested.

[Crunch3nt]

"I think you are taking the "double them on invitational auctions with suits breaking badly" thing a little far."

I disagree. This is a perfect example. I double and lead a heart.