chasetb Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 If you told me I had to lead a club, I would join JLOGIC in the bar while you led a club. One of two things would then happen: your club lead would beat the hand and you would play the rest of the match while JLOGIC and I formed a mutual admiration society in the bar; or dummy would have ♣Q98x and declarer ace third. Still, as we took our seats for the rest of the session, JLOGIC and I would be both agreed on the demerits of a club lead and a couple of beers to the good.Save a spot at that bar for me. I agree with you guys here, and to pick both of your guys' minds would be a hell of a way to end a day in my opinion! I talked about it with him irl already. FWIW I think H>S mainly because the 9 of hearts (Axx Jxx I'd lead a heart). I am not confident about this, a low spade is certainly reasonable, but I did say that double dummy simulations will support SA but that doesn't mean that much. Did you mean that if you had a spot instead of the ♥9 you would lead a Spade? It's probably just a mistake, but at this point I'm too tired and not thinking too coherently. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigpenz Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 yes as Pointed out earlier on the contrainsts I used,original problemhad just xxx....but boy some 9 or 8's make a big difference also the type of scoring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLOGIC Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Save a spot at that bar for me. I agree with you guys here, and to pick both of your guys' minds would be a hell of a way to end a day in my opinion! Did you mean that if you had a spot instead of the ♥9 you would lead a Spade? It's probably just a mistake, but at this point I'm too tired and not thinking too coherently. Yes I did, sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 I'm in love with some of the stuff in the David Bird book, my partners correspondingly a little less in love with me as a result. I think Justin captured very well why sim-based leads don't work quite as well in real life as they "should." FWIW, I'd lead the sA with my usual partner (she'll just roll her eyes if it doesn't work well) and a low spade with anyone else. I think it would be an interesting game to generate a bunch of lead problems and have you scored on opening lead via sims, tho :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted July 29, 2012 Report Share Posted July 29, 2012 dburn may have sounded like he was joking, but if you lead a spade I think you should definitely lead your middle one.If you hid gold and find partner will Kxxxx or similar the one thing you want him to do is duck, which he will if he thinks you've led from two low or three low. he won't duck if you might have Hxxx. You'll need to be playing smith peters or similar (e.g. some form of suit pref), and you'll also need to have agreed with partner that this is systemic, but it's definitely the right lead from that holding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLOGIC Posted July 29, 2012 Report Share Posted July 29, 2012 Interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wank Posted July 29, 2012 Report Share Posted July 29, 2012 the interesting thing for me is that the 10 is so much better than any other diamond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickyB Posted July 30, 2012 Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 the interesting thing for me is that the 10 is so much better than any other diamond. In the DD sim? Low number = bad, the ♦T was the worst lead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickyB Posted July 30, 2012 Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 I'm guessing the club-haters would consider ♣JT9 a better lead than the diamond but still worse than ♥/♠? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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