[Trinidad]

You are South and hold the following hand in a team match against decent and reliable opponents:

Scoring: IMP

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The auction starts:


West  North East  South
 -     Pass  1♦    2♠1
 Dbl   Pass  3♠2   Dbl3
 Pass4 Pass  4♣5   Pass
 5♣    Pass  Pass  Pass

1 Weak, but with a passed partner, the singleton ♦K and favorable vulnerability, I bid 2♠ anyway
2 Asking for a stop in spades
3 Please lead spades
4 No spade stop, perhaps a half stop
5 No stop / Don't want to play 3NT anyway

What is your lead?

The rest of the story, describing what happened at the table, is hidden:

Spoiler

I didn't want to lead any suit at all. Everything seemed to blow a trick.

I reasoned that partner didn't raise my WJO and would not have three card support. That gives my opponents at least 5 spades, but neither of them had a stop, so it was very likely that my partner had the Sp K singleton or doubleton. So, I lead a small spade, Sp Jxx in dummy, declarer playing small, Sp10 from partner for declarer's singleton K. Partner held SpTxx anyway. (The contract went down anyway, so no big deal.)

A. Was my reasoning wrong?
B. Am I unlucky? (At the time I had taken the possibility of Jxxx/xx/K into account and dismissed it since I judged that West would have bid 3NT with that).
C. Other

Rik

[wclass___]

Why did he ask for stopper with singleton ♠K?

[Trinidad]

wclass___, on Sep 26 2009, 08:32 PM, said:

Why did he ask for stopper with singleton ♠K?

I wrote:

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against decent and reliable opponents

I didn't write: "against good opponents who are sharks and continuously steal game swings from you".

Rik

[Fluffy]

I like your reasonings, but I am happy endplaying partner at trick 2 with ♠K.

[pooltuna]

Trinidad, on Sep 26 2009, 01:23 PM, said:

You are South and hold the following hand in a team match against decent and reliable opponents:

Scoring: IMP

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The auction starts:


West  North East  South
 -     Pass  1♦    2♠1
 Dbl   Pass  3♠2   Dbl3
 Pass4 Pass  4♣5   Pass
 5♣    Pass  Pass  Pass

1 Weak, but with a passed partner, the singleton ♦K and favorable vulnerability, I bid 2♠ anyway
2 Asking for a stop in spades
3 Please lead spades
4 No spade stop, perhaps a half stop
5 No stop / Don't want to play 3NT anyway

What is your lead?

The rest of the story, describing what happened at the table, is hidden:

Spoiler

I didn't want to lead any suit at all. Everything seemed to blow a trick.

I reasoned that partner didn't raise my WJO and would not have three card support. That gives my opponents at least 5 spades, but neither of them had a stop, so it was very likely that my partner had the Sp K singleton or doubleton. So, I lead a small spade, Sp Jxx in dummy, declarer playing small, Sp10 from partner for declarer's singleton K. Partner held SpTxx anyway. (The contract went down anyway, so no big deal.)

A. Was my reasoning wrong?
B. Am I unlucky? (At the time I had taken the possibility of Jxxx/xx/K into account and dismissed it since I judged that West would have bid 3NT with that).
C. Other

Rik

If they haven't got a ♠ stopper why wouldn't I lead the A. At least I get to look at dummy most of the time

[Codo]

I lead the ace too. If my partner has the king nothing is lost at all.

And no, I do not like your reasoning.

[Cyberyeti]

Codo, on Sep 28 2009, 03:38 AM, said:

I lead the ace too. If my partner has the king nothing is lost at all.

And no, I do not like your reasoning.

And more than that, it may be required to lead the ace if partner by some chance has a stiff king.

A♠ every time.

[akhare]

Underleading A♠ is too cute for me, so plunk down A♠.