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Whats's your lead?

#1 User is offline   OleBerg 

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Posted 2009-September-25, 01:12

Scoring: IMP


Competent but oldfashioned opponents bid uninterrupted:

1NT - 2♦
3♣ - 6♣

1NT = 15 -17
2♦ = Two-way Stayman
3♣ = 5-cards
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Posted 2009-September-25, 01:57

I lead a diamond with the hope that I contrl dummy's 4 card suit.
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Posted 2009-September-25, 07:33

Small ♥. I'd like to lead a ♠ but I find it too risky...
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Posted 2009-September-25, 07:44

♦8

 wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


 rbforster, on 2012-May-20, 21:04, said:

Besides playing for fun, most people also like to play bridge to win


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Posted 2009-September-25, 08:36

Fluffy, on Sep 25 2009, 02:57 AM, said:

I lead a diamond with the hope that I contrl dummy's 4 card suit.

The trouble is you may control both :)

I'll lead a small heart, although like Free, I want to lead a spade, but it seems the risks outweigh the possible gain.
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Posted 2009-September-25, 08:48

OleBerg, on Sep 25 2009, 02:12 AM, said:

Scoring: IMP


Competent but oldfashioned opponents bid uninterrupted:

1NT - 2♦
3♣ - 6♣

1NT = 15 -17
2♦ = Two-way Stayman
3♣ = 5-cards

let's see what we can eliminate from consideration first. I'm rarely a fan of a singleton trump lead and certainly not in this auction. Partner did not double 2♦ nor make a Lightner so ♦ look very suboptimal to me. That leaves one of the majors and I prefer to try and set up a setting trick so I lead a ♠
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Posted 2009-September-28, 00:48

I think in this hand the wish not to blow a trick is bigger then the need to creat a trick right now.

So I try a passive heart.
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Posted 2009-September-28, 01:39

I know I would lead a spade so that's what I vote for. I think of leads like this the same as I do hitting on 16 at blackjack. People get selective memory disorder since it fails in spectacular fashion a fair amount of the time, but I believe an objective analysis shows it's the lead most likely to be the winner.

Btw fluffy maybe dummy doesn't have a 4 card suit. Maybe he was about to show a slam invitation/force with just clubs. At least the way I understand 2-way stayman is it could be the start of any game-forcing or better hand, no 4 card major required.
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