[gwnn]

2H-2S-7H-end

AKxxx
x
xx
AKxxx

Your lead? This is a potentially silly hand from a book.

All V imps.

This post has been edited by gwnn: 2010-June-02, 05:13

[Free]

I guess it's 2H-(2S)-7H-end

♣A I guess...

[gwnn]

No, it's (2H)-2S-(7H)-end

I don't like it when people write uncontested auctions in 1 line and no semicolons that's a little confusing to me. I don't think this sequence is confusing at all (we wouldn't pass over 2H and opener wouldn't jump to 7H) but I guess that's just me.

[pooltuna]

gwnn, on Jun 2 2010, 06:11 AM, said:

2H-2S-7H-end

AKxxx
x
xx
AKxxx

Your lead? This is a potentially silly hand from a book.

All V imps.

Doesn't matter they always make

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but that's what you get for not bidding and letting your partner play 7♠

[jjbrr]

7♠

[Phil]

As I recall the story goes like this:

Dummy flopped 1-5-7-0.

After the (club) lead, Fred Karpin stood up and said:

"Pwnage bitches. And the beer"!

(The earliest recorded example of both sayings).

[Jlall]

Top spade.

A lot of this comes down to a levelling war (what level is your LHO on and what level does he think you're on etc).

However there is one technical consideration if you don't want to use psychology. RHO opened a weak 2 in hearts and probably is very unlikely to have 4 spades. So if LHO has a spade void, partner has 5 or 6 spades. With 5 or 6 spades partner might well have just saved on this auction all vul.

So by leading a club we're playing for specifically LHO to have a void, partner to have 5+ spades and not to have saved. By leading a spade we are just playing for LHO to have a club void, anything could be happening in clubs since no one has bid them and we couldn't have saved in 8 clubs anyways.

If you want to get into psychology it is my opinion that bridge players rarely go to level 3+, and they are far more likely to jump to 7 with a club void than a spade void since they expect you to not lead a spade on this auction. Of course they COULD go to a higher level than that and jump to 7 with a club void again, but imo it is much more likely that they jump to 7 with a club void.

All roads point to a spade lead.

[Jlall]

Also this hand reminds me very much of one I posted once on this forum.

edit: http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?sho...c=32883&hl=wold

[whereagles]

spade. opps are joking and have the void in CLUBS

[gwnn]

The book actually gave this problem:

QJ
ATxx
AKJxxxx
-

And 2♥-(2♠)-??

Apparently this was played at a swiss teams tournament with duplicated boards and nobody bid 7♥ (but there were a few tables with 6♥+1 and 5♥x+2) but I see why 7♥ is more likely to make than 6♥. Anyway, if jlall and whereagles agree, they can hardly be wrong, can they?