han Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 You are on lead against 6D with the following hand: J10xxQxxxxKJxx The auction was 1D - 1S2NT - 6D What would you lead? (it's IMPs) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianshark Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Small club I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
655321 Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Often I would just lead a club with this hand, but with the 2NT bid to our right, there must be a fair chance of AQ there. Diamond is passive, and I don't like to make a passive lead on this auction. Heart is possible - combines some aggression without perhaps as much danger. Maybe, instead of leading a heart to partner's King and declarer's Ace, followed by being thrown in with the ♥Q to lead into the club tenace, we could make the Zia lead of the ♥Q. I would not lead a spade. In real life I would not be brave enough to lead the ♥Q, even though it may well be best, and would probably lead a low club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrexford Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Passive for me. Diamond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jlall Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 diamond for me as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcurt Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Diamond. If I did lead a club, I would lead the CJ. If partner's only card is the CQ, I'd better not remove his club guard, since I will probably be forced to keep spades in the endgame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cascade Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 I am a big fan of attacking leads against a small slam but I lead a diamond here. Unless dummy has five spades they don't have a side source of tricks. And we have a spade stopper so declarer is unlikely to have even four spade tricks. This means that passive rates to give us a chance of getting all of our tricks here. Five spades is somewhere in the realm unlikely to impossible since responder might have made some sort of attempt to find a 5=3 spade fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted March 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Question 2 is what Fantoni lead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Question 2 is what Fantoni lead. ♠T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effervesce Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Looks like the honors are positioned well over declarer's and spades arent splitting - why present declarer with a contract destiny had foreordained for him to lose. A safe diamond looks best-it is least likely they have a diamond loser/guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 With spades stopped, I see no need to get busy. A diamond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halo Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Looking at this holding and the auction, I'd reject the club lead and play a diamond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 ♥Q, I want to attack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 If I choose a club, its a high club. I have too much to look after in the endgame if I don't. I think I have enough junk that I think I can afford to go passive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 trump lead for me as well... the other leads are too dangerous and we don't know enough about the hand to be adventuresome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianshark Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 I just don't think much of our ♠ stop. it ould easily be AKQxx opp xx and he gets 1 discard immediately, and a second when he ruffs a ♠. I thought about the ♥Q as well. I guess that's what Fantoni led? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted March 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Nobody guessed Fantoni's lead, it was a low club. I heard the story yesterday, the full hand was something like this: [hv=d=s&v=n&n=saxxxhkxdkjxxxcxx&w=sj10xxhqxxdxxckjxx&e=skxhj10xxxdxxc10xxx&s=sq9xhaxxdaq10xcaqx]399|300|Scoring: IMP[/hv] Club lead to the queen, followed by two rounds of trumps and hearts and clubs were eliminated. Low spade from dummy and east played low. Should declarer guess it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Of course he should. Since LHO led from his ♣K, he probably doesn't have the spade king otherwise he wouldn't be attacking. If that isn't convincing, you can always say you're playing for split kings.. lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Club lead to the queen, followed by two rounds of trumps and hearts and clubs were eliminated. Low spade from dummy and east played low. Should declarer guess it? Not at this stage. If he was going to play East for SK, he should have played ace and another, catering for West having Kx. It does seem odd to play West for KJ or K10 or spades in addition to CK and HQ. I'd have thought that a trump would be a standout on that, given that North and South are both likely to be fairly balanced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 If you put the 9 now, you win when LHO has the king or RHO JT and forgot to split... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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