[FrancesHinden]

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IMPs
Opponents play 4-card majors, weak NT, no special system

[Lord Molyb]

low spade

[Fluffy]

I also try a spade, althou ♥QJx asks for passivity diamond ain't passive, and leading short with trump tricks is against normal logic.

[JLOGIC]

I am a pretty passive leader in general but

A)I think this auction usually calls for an aggressive lead

B)I have no passive lead

So I'd lead a spade.

[Lord Molyb]

amazingly people agree with me, this must be a pretty easy problem

[rogerclee]

Spade, just seems like the lead that needs the least to be right.

[nige1]

FrancesHinden writes "IMPs. Opponents play 4-card majors, weak NT, no special system"


IMO ♣7 = 10, ♠3 = 8, ♥Q = 6, ♦2 = 4
Most of the strength is likely to be on your right. The seemingly kamikaze ♥Q may work against an imaginative declarer.

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[gnasher]

I'd lead a diamond, because I've gone off underleading kings. Underleading a jack isn't very appealing either, but it's a bit safer.

[gszes]

These hands are normally long trump suit or two suited hands.
When the opps can pull trumps there is more of an urgency
than when they can't (like this hand). Declarer is much more
likely to have a 2 suited hand and looking at our distribution
that 2nd suit is a ton more likely to be clubs than diamonds.

Leading clubs now has 2 stikes against it ther is little reason
to lead your shot suit when all a ruff will do is cut down on your
natural trump trick(s) and it has the extra problem of granting a
"weak" dummy extra entries in the for of free club finesses.

A spade lead has the advantage of almost never leading rho
long suit but there is still great danger in leading fom a K
into the "strong" hand. While a spade lead requires only
the spade queen form p to be effective the lead of a dia
requires only a T8 to be non disastrous even if it is rho
second suit.

IMO low D = 7 low spade = 5 low club = 3 any heart = 1 nothing
is perfect and different leads will work on different days even
the suicidal low heart will find p with stiff K on occassion sigh.

[rmnka447]

Low spade. They've bid aggressively to game, so I'm making an attacking lead.

[FrancesHinden]

This hand was the cause of a great deal of team discussion when a spade lead was selected by a teammate at the table, and it's the only lead to give the contract.
One of the team said a spade lead was horrible, far too aggressive, and a minor (either minor) was far preferable, and I should do a poll.

I think he's been persuaded it's less clear than perhaps he believed.

[madongjun]

Lead ♠6.

[the hog]

Low Spade. A D lead from Jxxx is very poor and I don't fancy the C lead.