lead my suit or partner's

[squealydan]

I held :

 

♠ A74

♥ T6

♦ 92

♣ KQ8765

 

Partner opened a weak 2♥, 2♠ from RHO, raised to 4 by his partner.

 

Which would you lead, K♣ or T♥?

 

(Matchpoints if it matters....)

[Codo]

Club. I will not be the only one to ruff a third heart, so not much future there. But maybe partner does hold a singleton club, so this may well produce a trick.

[mgoetze]

(Matchpoints if it matters....)

If anything matters, it's the vulnerability and whether your partner was in 1st or 2nd seat. ;) If partner could be preempting on J9xxxx a heart is less attractive...

 

Anyway in this case I agree with club regardless of vulnerability.

[gszes]

the odds of p being short in clubs are rather small. In order

to play for p having the short club we must start with the

club K which is a favorite to be behind the A so a club ruff

by p might still be nothing but a trade off. Our poor trump

holding means we can never profitably ruff a heart but that

does not mean a heart lead cant be a winner if p has either

good hearts or reasonable hearts and the card placement is

in our favor.

 

IMO lead a heart and hope it at worst holds the opps to less

tricks than the others save the heroic club lead for IMPS

(where I would still lead a heart)

[ArtK78]

Club.

 

Even if gszes is right about the location of the club honors, if we don't attack clubs immediately we may lose our club trick(s) on diamonds (or hearts).

 

The same can be said about hearts, but I am looking at the club trick and not at the heart trick.