Walddk Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 [hv=d=s&v=e&w=sq76h6dkqj108cak107&s=sak2hkqj107d64cq84]266|200|Scoring: XIMP[/hv]Expert game on BBO. You are South and the auction is as follows: 1♥ 2♦ 4♥ pp dble p 4♠all pass Before you ask, I may just as well tell that this NS pair can't have a 5-card major when opening 1NT. Anyway, you lead ♥K and partner follows with the deuce. You have this agreement: 1) Low card is encouraging.2) High even card is suit preference for the lower side suit.3) High odd card is suit preference for the higher side suit. So North has no help in diamonds or clubs; not ♦A, not a singleton diamond and not a singleton club either. Basically, your partner asks you to continue hearts unless you have an obvious switch. Do you? What do you lead at trick 2? Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poky Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 If partner has "nothing", obviously, he has 5 hearts. Since I do not know if he has the ♠J, it is better if I do (hidden text follows...) not return another heart. A passive return can spoil declarer's communication allowing me to score 3 trump tricks. The only card I hope partner has is the club Jack. If I allow 2 heart ruffs, this becomes a non-problem hand. Nice problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianshark Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 If partner has the ♣J, I can hope for declarer to have 3+ ♣s and a club switch now will set up an eventual trick. If partner has the ♠J, I can either lead a small ♠ now, hope declarer plays low, assume partner will read and duly returns a ♠, draw dummy's trump and cash a ♥. I'm going to err on the side of my partner's signal, however clairvoyant he must be to foresee my problem, giving him ♠J instead of ♣J, so a small spade is my play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codo Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 If I simply continue hearts, declarer has 3 Spade tricks (if he has 5), 5 Diamonds two clubs and the heart ruff. Okay, he cannot take them all, but I see no way to get more then three tricks with this approach.If I switch to a spade and declarer does not have the jack, he may still play the queen. After all I showed an opening bid, so this trick may not work. And expecting 5 Spades in declarers hand, he is the 5:2 favourite to posess the Jack. If he has 6 spades it is even worse.A diamond seems to be fruitless, there is no ruff, so this can only work if it cuts down communication or if he misplays, fearing a singelton. That leaves a club, hoping to find pd with the jack. This looks like a legitimate chance which I try to find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo81 Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 I'd switch to the ♣8 hoping partner had ♣Jx(x). Also declarer could assume the ♥2 was standard and decide to win in dummy and play on diamonds trying to pitch a club. For instance if his hand was 6-2-2-3 then he might make this play even with both black jacks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 I'd go with a club Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skjaeran Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 Can't see any reason for leading anything but a club. I'll switch to a somewhat deceptive ♣8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo81 Posted November 19, 2007 Report Share Posted November 19, 2007 This thread has died? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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