Gerben42 Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 ♠J3♥KT4♦A8743♣Q92 Auction 1♠ p 4♠* * Opening strength 3+♠ (don't ask...) To make things worse, your agreed opening lead style is Polish, i.e. 2nd and 4th, low from small doubleton. Scoring: MPOpponents: No good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P_Marlowe Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 scoring format? MP: Trump, passiveIMP: Heart, aggressive With kind regardsMarlowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 small ♦, apparently it's the 4... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogsbreath Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 hi looks to me like a passive lead not only inadequate but hard to determine what is passive!.... if i chose to attack it will be Q♣ ..p doesnt rate to have much and this may protect our club holding .. additionally, as i seem to hold the entries it's possible we find a club ruff if p has the 'magic' Jx holding.I have to admit i might not actually lead this at the table :)) Rgds Dog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcLight Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 I find this a difficult problem. It sounds like pard has at most 5 HCP and could be as few as 2. I think with 0 they might bid more. Im guessing Trumps are 5-3. If Dummy has 4 trumps with 13 HCP and bids 4S they will miss many slams, unless its a 4-3-3-3 quackish hand. I'd like to make a passive lead, but I dont see any.Leading a club or heart can easily give away a trick. Sma efor a Spade as it doesn't sound like they need ruffs. We want to avoid giving away tricks. If they have the K and Q of dimes plus all their other values we sont set the contract, so aim to score as many tricks as possible. Because both N and S have many HCP the prohibition of underleading aces is somewhat lifted. If we underlead the Ace ♦ and Dummy ahs the K and ducks to pards Q and he returns the suit, we may get a 3rd round ruff. That requires both opps be 3-3 in Diamonds. I don't think thats likely, but we may still score pards Q and our ace and another trick and get a good score holding them to 4. For the Ace underlead to cost the opps must have a doubleton diamond, win the first trick, and be able to discard a diamond later. The alternative is Ace and another ♦. GOOD opps would ask themselves why you are making that lead and suspect you have the missing honors. I lead the Ace♦ and am prepared for it to be a bad lead. But I think all other leads will be more likely to be bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 Whatever the correct lower heart is.Must admit I would not have given any other lead a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temp3600 Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 ♥4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adhoc3 Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 ♥ 4, auto. Dont know polish thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted July 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 ♥ 4, auto. Dont know polish thing I am just stating the agreements. You may of course deviate from those agreements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adhoc3 Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 Lead ♥10 seems... oddness to me, not sure about the meaning :P BTW, 'auto' means I dont know where to start, so get to the lazy way :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bid_em_up Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 When in doubt, lead a club (if not leading a trump). Its like Rodney Dangerfield, it gets no respect. Since I have an honor in the suit, and I (probably) wish for partner to continue this line of attack, I will lead the 2 pretending I have 4, instead of the 9, showing no interest in the suit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted July 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 At least no one led ♥K, everything else was chosen at least once so far. Keep voting! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke warm Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 ♠3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted July 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 In the actual hand: Heart and Club cost a trick and lead to an overtrick. Spades and Ace of Diamonds are neutral and lead to just making. A small Diamonds leads to 1 down as declarer will misguess the situation (unless you think for it for ages, then declarer might go right with Kx in dummy and Jx in hand...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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