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Usually your lead questions are quite tricky and I find the club sticks out so far that it must be wrong.

Usually my lead questions (and my bidding questions, and some of my play questions) are just hands where I didn't know what to do. If we get a solid vote for one particular choice, that's fine with me - at least I'll know what I should have done.

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obviously not a heart, since if we go -800 dummy must have good hearts

obviously not a trump because the british seem to suggest it doesn't work

 

seriously guys, could you let the problems at least a couple of days live before spoiling them? or maybe use spoiler tags?

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This is the full hand:

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I led a club, but that let it through: club lead ruffed, A, heart ruff, club ruff, heart ruffed and overruffed, K to the ace, spade back to the queen, endplaying East.

 

I think the club lead is a mistake. They've bid to 4 under their own steam, in at best a 9-card fit, when we might have beeing stopping in 3. They must have some shape to justify that. In particular LHO, a passed hand, competed to 3, so he's likely to have a shortage.

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This is the full hand:

[hv=pc=n&s=sajt854hak96dt76c&w=s96hqj7542d532c54&n=s32h8dkq98ckt9862&e=skq7ht3daj4caqj73]399|300[/hv]

I led a club, but that let it through: club lead ruffed, A, heart ruff, club ruff, heart ruffed and overruffed, K to the ace, spade back to the queen, endplaying East.

 

I think the club lead is a mistake. They've bid to 4 under their own steam, in at best a 9-card fit, when we might have beeing stopping in 3. They must have some shape to justify that. In particular LHO, a passed hand, competed to 3, so he's likely to have a shortage.

I agree. A club is a poor choice. A trump is "obvious".

 

Rainer Herrmann

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