TWO4BRIDGE Posted May 13, 2014 Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 Opps bid unopposed:1D - 3NT Your lead holding:♠A Q J 5 4♥A 4♦J 4 3 2♣6 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endymion77 Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 ♠A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 +1 for the spade ace. Got high hopes to set this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycroft Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 First, what's 3NT? If it's the newish-standard "no 4cM, 13-15", partner can have a card. If it's oldish-standard "no 4cM, good 16-18", she likely won't. May still lead the ♠A, maybe hoping partner might tell me about the ten. At MPs, we might have just given the minor suit raiser their tenth trick. But if partner can have a card (doesn't have to be the ♠K, could be the ♦Q or a club useful card) it's more likely we can get four spades and a trick. What are we pitching on the run of the clubs? Having said all of that, I don't see where any other lead than a spade has any advantage (except, I guess, underleading the ♥A into partner's K). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gszes Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 spade A With a good chance p is broke or declarer can finessethem safely treating us as the danger hand----a smallspade seems misplaced since it can all too easily givethe opps 2 possible spades (K that they rate to have andthe T where they are 2/1 favorites). Starting with the ace is no guarantee of success but with declarer having less than 4 spades the odds are in our favor of setting up spades and since we have a side entry there is no reasonto risk the normal play of the spade Q or J depending on carding) who knows maybe we will get lucky and drop the stiff K from rho who was trying to protect it in order to play 3n:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandakh Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Would the 4 of you still choose the ace if that was the strong (unblock/count) lead or switch down to the Q/J in that case? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Still the ace. Pard rates to have little to nothing, so it doesn't matter much, as stuff will be clear by trick 2. And if he happens to unblock a would-be ♠K, it's fine by me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWO4BRIDGE Posted May 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Opps bid unopposed:1D - 3NT Your lead holding:♠A Q J 5 4♥A 4♦J 4 3 2♣6 3The A, Q or J needed to be led.Anything else allowed Declarer to win the race.Declarer held 3 cards ( K 9 x ) and dummy had 3 cards ( 10 x x ) .( Declarer also needed ♥ tricks to make . ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandakh Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 I have to admit, I was expecting ♠K to be singleton when we got the hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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