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#1 User is offline   wyman 

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Posted 2012-November-13, 09:01

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3/5 are our systemic leads


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Posted 2012-November-13, 09:10

Always lead partner's s.... oh wait.

Opening leads are not my forte but I'll try the D4 (or should that be the 8), hoping to find partner short? Nothing else looks nice.

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Posted 2012-November-13, 09:20

ahydra: The 8 would be our systemic length lead in ♦.
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Posted 2012-November-13, 10:26

Diamond looks nice, yes- and I try the two. :)
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Posted 2012-November-13, 11:58

This is actually the crux of my question:

Partner knows that if I have a side void here, it's in clubs. Am I supposed to lead low to say "yes, lead a club" or am I supposed to lead the 8 to say "I have 6, so it's more likely that I have a club void" ?

My thought was that since I didn't lead a club, he'd figure it out regardless, so I led the ♦8. But I didn't know if I was right to do so.
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Posted 2012-November-13, 12:23

I think you led the right card. Partner may or may not want to give you a club ruff, but the diamond count is very important for cashing out.
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Posted 2012-November-13, 12:28

2d

Has both the virtue of letting pard know i have zero clubs and 5 or 6d.
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Posted 2012-November-13, 13:19

I went through exactly your thought process wyman, but decided the 8 was better. The 2 is more likely to fool partner into miscounting me for just 5 diamonds, and thus miscount the hand. There is no reason for a fancy 'alarm clock' here. I'm already not leading his suit. Just play the 8 and let partner think.
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Posted 2012-November-13, 15:22

You didn't lead a club.

You didn't lead an honour from a sequence.

He'd have to have had his brain surgically removed not to work out that you are void in clubs, so the systemic count card in diamonds is clear, imo
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Posted 2012-November-14, 16:41

Just lead your normal count card in these spots
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