MickyB Posted December 24, 2007 Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 [hv=d=e&s=sj876hq54dq4ca987]133|100|Scoring: IMP/ 1N2♦:2♥3NT:4♥P Playing standard (4th/2nd) leads, what's your choice?[/hv] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jlall Posted December 24, 2007 Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 Would not seriously consider any lead besides a spade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted December 24, 2007 Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 Doesn't that make a spade even more obvious than when opener passed 3NT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickyB Posted December 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 Okay, I considered it to be fairly close between the black suits, so went for the bulletin! The conditions seem right for an ace-underlead - both declarer and dummy are balanced and there's nothing else particularly attractive to lead. Why would a club be so bad? Part of the reason for leading a spade against NT is that the club ace might be the entry to cash your long spade. That's not an issue against a suit contract :) So I don't think it's necessarily true that the club lead is less attractive against a suit contract than against NT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted December 24, 2007 Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 The conditions seem right for an ace-underlead - both declarer and dummy are balanced and there's nothing else particularly attractive to lead. I thought the conditions involved - The strength being mostly on our left, not our right as here.- Defensive chances looking much more hopeless than on this hand, where we have a lot of possibilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jlall Posted December 24, 2007 Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 If you talked yourself into underleading an ace into the 1N opener I think you overthought this one. When the strength is on our right this just blows a trick way too often. Not to mention declarer is going to play you for all the red suit queens after you make this lead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted December 24, 2007 Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 Okay, I considered it to be fairly close between the black suits, so went for the bulletin!There's more than one way to make the bulletin :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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