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  1. 1. Which suit do you lead vs 4H?

    • Spade
      15
    • Heart
      0
    • Diamond
      2
    • Club
      0


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This hand came up last weekend in the Finnish Midsummer bridge festival, junior teams tournament - playing vs the Scottish U25 team, they have this auction to game - which would be your lead now. As for partners choices - double over 2D would be majors - others doubles, no specific agreement, in general should be lead directing, but we have not discussed them. So what would you lead and why?

Also some followup points

- I never seem to get these leads right -are the any good guidelines for these situations(Leading after 2N-to game auctions)

- Also, what is the standard for doubles here, and how light do you expect partner to be, if she makes one.

 

EDIT: Changed the question to 4H

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J

I try to find a save lead.

There is no reason to risk a club lead from this holding into the strong hand.

A heart lead could easily give away a trick.

 

Two suits to chose from, J is the safest.

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No double to 3 but it doesn't mean that partner can't have a good 4 card suit or even ok 5 card suit. It is too risky to do lead doubles with bad suits when opponents might make 3 easily in this biding. Based on that I would still chooses spade lead as the safest alternative. Dummy has denies spades so at least one of opponents hands doesn't have spade suit.
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