Apollo81 Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 ♠K♥A10xxx♦Qxx♣xxxx all red, MPs No bidding by our side 1♣*-1♠*-1NT-2♣*-2♠-3NT The opps had a Precision auction: 1♣ was strong, 1♠ showed 8-12 balanced, and 2♣ was Stayman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerclee Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 ♣. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 definitely club, on a lucky day this will even beat it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 ♣ is the lead I hate the least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtfanclub Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 OK, I admit it. I lead a heart. I'm perfectly willing to admit that I'm doing it out of 'longest and strongest' and hoping that partner has Jx and a side entry. It's also possible that Responder bid 2♣ as checkback, without 4 hearts. I wonder if that's what's next, that this was unalerted checkback (responder has 12, opener would bid 3♠ with a 20 count and spades). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effervesce Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 Club for me. The bidding has indicated LHO has 4 card hearts. Partner probably has 5-6 spades but I'm not leading the spade K into what could easily be AQxx. Leading from Qxx is horrible too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo81 Posted July 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 It's interesting that the votes are 14-5 in favor of a heart lead, but the posts are 4-1 against a heart lead. There is surely some inherent bias in posts like this. Because the "book" action is to lead hearts, and this is a post, it cannot be right. Thus for the most part, people will admit to leading a heart, but only anonymously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted July 29, 2008 Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 At imps i might lead a heart, but not at matchpoints. Look, 2♣ was stayman and they didn't find their fit even with a spade suit bid. So one of them has 4♥ and the other at least two. Partner is marked with seven hcp or less. We don't want to blow a trick, and a passive defense seems best to me, and the best looking passive lead is a club. At imps, i would lead a heart, as that is the best chance to set the contract. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nige1 Posted August 3, 2008 Report Share Posted August 3, 2008 At imps i might lead a heart, but not at matchpoints. Look, 2♣ was stayman and they didn't find their fit even with a spade suit bid. So one of them has 4♥ and the other at least two. Partner is marked with seven hcp or less. We don't want to blow a trick, and a passive defense seems best to me, and the best looking passive lead is a club. At imps, i would lead a heart, as that is the best chance to set the contract. IMO ♣ = 10, ♠ = 9, ♥ =8 The "book" lead may well be a ♥. Hence people feel that they should explain why they choose something else. IMO a ♥ lead is too aggressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazy4hoop Posted August 4, 2008 Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 I voted club and am leading a club here. The stiff King looks wrong, there are 4 hearts on my left, and I automatically lose the postmortem by leading a diamond (not that I play for that reason). So, even though partner didn't double 2♣, I still lead one, as he wouldn't necesarily double with QJ10x, AQ10x, AJ10x, or other decent club holdings where the fear of defending 2♣XX exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexlogan Posted August 4, 2008 Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 The heart lead seems least likely to blow a trick, and gives us field protection as well. Partner has a few points; everyone rates to be approximately 3-3 in the minors; the diamond lead is apt to set up the 13th card for declarer, while the club lead is apt to pickle an honor in partner's hand without establishing the suit for us. I frequently lead the singleton on this sort of auction (into partner's marked 5 card suit) but not the stiff King here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted August 4, 2008 Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 The auction suggests that we had a chance to bid 1H and we didn't. I'm confused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo81 Posted August 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 The auction suggests that we had a chance to bid 1H and we didn't. I'm confused. Oh yeah, forgot about this post. I bid 1♥ and went for a 4-digit number so I didn't have this lead problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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