awkward lead

[Fluffy]

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Opponents are known for their aggressiveness.

[gszes]

club J

 

I must admit i do not see anything awkward about this lead. It offers

us several chances for for good defensive prospects and it is by far

the least risky. Our control of the trump suit makes it tough for the

opps to run clubs w/o giving us 3 trump tricks and we can always

save tackling hearts or diamonds for later after we see the dummy.

[mikeh]

Any lead I make could blow a trick, but the club lead looks to me like a terrible choice. If the opps hold a side fit, it is likely clubs, and the J could easily be fatal, especially since we are defending on a hand on which trump split well for them.

 

While partner's redouble probably didn't promise the diamond K, it seems to me that when placing cards in his hand, the diamond K is the one we can most reliably expect...not only did he raise the suit, but he redoubled. So I lead the diamond Ace, and think it pretty clear to do so, while recognizing that it, as with any other card I could choose, may blow up on me.

[quiddity]

While partner's redouble probably didn't promise the diamond K, it seems to me that when placing cards in his hand, the diamond K is the one we can most reliably expect...not only did he raise the suit, but he redoubled.

 

I don't have a quarrel with ♦A but was surprised by the inference you draw from redouble.. to me the redouble sounds like a good hand (in context) with defensive values outside the diamond suit. It sounds like he wants to penalize them rather than compete in diamonds. Is that totally wrong?

[Fluffy]

redouble is looking for penalties no doubt. Partner will be mostly balanced and maximum, he also doesn't have the 'bad cards' ♦QJ, but we knew that already.♦K is also not a very good value since dummy simply cannot have more than 1 diamond.

[gnasher]

LHO's bidding is odd. What sort of hand can't act over 1♣ or 2♦ (which was non-forcing, presumably), but does want to compete over 3♦?

 

I'm not convinced about my bidding either. I might have bid 3NT instead of passing 3♦. On the next round, I knew that partner was maximum, ♦K was probably onside, and we might well get a spade lead. 3NT seems more attractive than doubling 3♠ and then wondering what to lead, and if it made it would teach LHO a sharp lesson.

 

I voted for ♠A, to get a look at dummy and a suit-preference signal, and because it's quite likely that we should be cutting down dummy's ruffs. However, there are arguments for all four suits: a heart because partner probably has an honour there and we need some heart tricks before the clubs get going; a diamond because it may be right to force dummy to set up my spade tricks; a club so that I can score my ♠10 by ruffing a loser.

[nige1]

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Not just to be different ♥J = 10, ♦A = 9, ♣J = 8, ♠A = 7

[Lord Molyb]

IMO ♦A = 10, ♥J = 9, ♣J = 9, ♠A = 5, ♠ = 3

I like every non-trump lead.

[Fluffy]

the rating guys gave a 0 for my low diamonds try lol.

 

BTW I made a mistake on the hand, hope it didn't change much, but it will explain why I didn't bid 3NT.

 

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[the hog]

I am definitely leading the DA. I agree that a C lead is terrible.

[rmnka447]

I'm also a ♦ A leader. With partner supporting ♦s, you're unlikely to get more than 1 ♦ trick. Leading a ♣ may result in ruffing with trump winners you'd get anyway. Leading from the other tenaced suits has more risk of giving the opponents a trick.

 

Sure, the A lead may give the opponents a trick too. However, looking at dummy may provide a clue toward the killing continuation or allow partner to show a suit preference.