pclayton Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 [hv=d=e&v=b&s=sqt8xhk9xdjxxxctx]133|100|Scoring: IMP[/hv] RHO opens 1♥, you pass, 1N forcing by LHO, pard bids 2♦ RHO reverses with 2♠, you raise to 3♦, 3♥ on left, 4♥ on right. Your lead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jlall Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 The club ten to try and set up some tricks/ruffs is one possibilty. A diamond trying to cash your diamond and get either a trump or club shift is another option... A trump trying to stop ruffs is also an option. I'd probably go with a club. Then again I'm the worst opening leader ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo81 Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 I'll vote for the uninspired 3rd best diamond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skjaeran Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 Just to make sure all possible leads are covered, I'll go for a trump. :P As Justin said, anything might be right (except a ♠). I'll try to avoid ruffs in dummy and hope to score late ♠ trick(s). 2nd choice: ♦ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 nice problem. ♠ lead is silly. It is the only lead for which it is nearly impossible to find a winning layout. ♦ lead gets us our ♦ trick, if we have one, and may allow partner to lead a trump from his side.. possibly allowing us to lead a second round before declarer can ruff ♠s. But our trump length suggests that the tapping defence is unlikely to prevail... and that we may be losing a tempo. A ♣ lead can win: it is easy to see how this can score us a ruff if the suit is 5=3=3=2, with dummy holding 5. We may even get a second trump trick by force if the suit is 6322 and partner has a minor trump honour. But he needs the correct ♣ holding and even then, he has to guess accurately if he has the A but no quick side entry: he will have to know to duck the first round. And we may find a layout of KJ9xx in dummy and Axx in declarer, or equivalent. Or we may find that declarer can cash 3 top ♣s, pitching his ♦ loser when we ruff with what would have been our second natural trump trick: partner being dealt Q10 or J10 of trump. And, finally, we may lose a tempo. A trump has obvious disadvantages if we were dealt 2 trump tricks or if, by leading a trump, we allow declarer to cash a second round and then run ♣s pitching his ♦ loser. But it may limit declarer's ability to ruff sufficient ♠s in dummy. So, a good problem. Put me down for a mundane ♦, since I think the chances of losing that trick or setting up the ♣ suit are too high for any other lead, and I expect partner to switch to trump when it is right to do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bid_em_up Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 Trump. Why? Because I have 4 spades. I do not think it is likely we ever have 2 trump tricks on this auction. Of course, I am probably going to wish that I led a diamond, so that partner could win and return his trump through declarer instead. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 I'll vote for the uninspired 3rd best diamond. ditto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 I am not smart enough to do anything but a diamond, maybe dummy has 3 spades anyway and then trump just gives up too much. I would not be surprised to see a trump or even a club work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted March 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 Here's the entire hand: [hv=n=sxxxhtxxdatxcjxxx&w=sqtxxhk9xdjxxxctx&e=sjxhqdkqxxxxcaxxx&s=sakxxhaj8xxxdckqx]399|300|[/hv] I led a trump, since it seemed dummy had a very weak hand with a little shape. Seemingly a club sinks it, but by getting our ruff, we give declarer 2 spade pitches. Push board right? No - teammates got a diamond lead and made the uninpsired play of the ♥10 from the board :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo81 Posted March 30, 2007 Report Share Posted March 30, 2007 Push board right? No - teammates got a diamond lead and made the uninpsired play of the ♥10 from the board :) go team! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dake50 Posted March 30, 2007 Report Share Posted March 30, 2007 Lead a D as partner obviously made a lead director. Any shape with a D suit would have done some real interfering bid (I say facetiously). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted March 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2007 Lead a D as partner obviously made a lead director. Any shape with a D suit would have done some real interfering bid (I say facetiously). If my partner made lead directing overcalls vulnerable at the 2 level in a key match, we'd have bigger issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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