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Matchpoints, unknown opponents.
Red vs. White. You hold (in fourth seat):
3, KQ6, A9864, KT74
The auction (starting on your left, and only opps bid):
1♣=1♠
1NT=2♥
2♠=4♠
AP
What do you lead and why?
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What do you lead Thanks for your thoughts
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Posted 2011-May-10, 18:58
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Posted 2011-May-10, 19:30
It's a really ugly hand to lead from. I don't want to lead my singleton spade, a heart could go into AJ and a club could be dangerous. I don't like it that much but I'll take my chances at ♦A.
wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:
Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.
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Posted 2011-May-10, 20:35
Low systemic ♣, by process of elimination. Not thrilled about it but not distressed about it either.
I once yelled at my partner for discarding the 'wrong' card when he was subjected to a squeeze that I allowed by giving the wrong count with too high a card. Now he's allowed to pitch aces when the opponents have the king in the dummy. At trick 2. When he could have followed suit. And blame me.
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Posted 2011-May-11, 00:29
Ace of diamonds.
Partner should be broke on this auction, so I don't gain anything from leading away from my honors - a club is out. I don't want to pickle partner's hoped-for 4 card spade holding, so a trump is out. opener bid a club instead of a diamond, which in my part of the world generally means that he has at most 3 diamonds (unless he's 4=5 in the minors, but I'll discount that for now), so I don't think I'm setting up too many minor suit pitches for righty by leading my ace, and even if I am, it's possible that righty had those pitches anyway because my club card is sitting right for them.
I'm hoping to get a diamond, two hearts, and a spade out of this.
Partner should be broke on this auction, so I don't gain anything from leading away from my honors - a club is out. I don't want to pickle partner's hoped-for 4 card spade holding, so a trump is out. opener bid a club instead of a diamond, which in my part of the world generally means that he has at most 3 diamonds (unless he's 4=5 in the minors, but I'll discount that for now), so I don't think I'm setting up too many minor suit pitches for righty by leading my ace, and even if I am, it's possible that righty had those pitches anyway because my club card is sitting right for them.
I'm hoping to get a diamond, two hearts, and a spade out of this.
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Posted 2011-May-11, 00:40
♦A for me, not only because there is a danger of our ♦ tricks going bye bye on ♣, but also pd is likely to have 4 cards trump, i would like to tap declarer if we can. ♦ A will allow us to study the dummy also.
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Posted 2011-May-11, 01:14
Has anyone noticed anything odd about the auction?
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Posted 2011-May-11, 01:48
gnasher, on 2011-May-11, 01:14, said:
Has anyone noticed anything odd about the auction?
You mean bidding game after NF 2♥ ? Perhaps they dont play checkback or nmf...idk.
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Posted 2011-May-11, 02:19
Hanoi5, on 2011-May-10, 19:30, said:
It's a really ugly hand to lead from. I don't want to lead my singleton spade, a heart could go into AJ and a club could be dangerous. I don't like it that much but I'll take my chances at ♦A.
My thoughts exactly, with a small addition that I have bad experiences with underleading the Ace from a 5 card suit, so that's out to.
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Posted 2011-May-11, 04:19
My feeling is to lead the singleton trump, so that's what I do. Opps are going to have a hard time setting up suits, so trump lead seems right. Might blow a trick, but that's the sort of trick that usually comes back with interest.
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Posted 2011-May-11, 14:03
Thanks for your thoughts. I decided to underlead the Ace. I got lucky this time finding my partner with Kx of diamonds and declarer and dummy with 3 each. But I thought that it was still probably the "wrong" lead, and that I just got lucky.
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