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Lead Prob

Poll: Lead Prob (28 member(s) have cast votes)

Lead Prob

  1. Spade (9 votes [32.14%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 32.14%

  2. Heart (1 votes [3.57%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 3.57%

  3. Diamond (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  4. Club (18 votes [64.29%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 64.29%

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#1 User is offline   eagles123 

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Posted 2014-December-03, 18:06



sry thought i was in int/adv
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Posted 2014-December-04, 02:47

A ♥ seems safe. I think a ♣ is moRe likely to give a trick away than to be the winning option
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Posted 2014-December-04, 03:18

A spade lead is less likely to blow up partner's holding there than a trump declarer's play in that suit. It also may work by leading through strength, or finding partner's strength, not possible on a lead into declarer's long suit.
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Posted 2014-December-04, 04:19

Club for me, some guy named papi suggests leading from a K against slams and it often produces the result we want.
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Posted 2014-December-04, 04:30

Our diamond holding suggests an attacking lead and auction suggests dummy will have spade control. If it's the ace, you want to lead through it.


Spade thus.
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Posted 2014-December-04, 06:49

When an auction goes bang-crash-wallop into slam without any subtlety, it's either cold or relying on a bit of fortune. A guesstimate is that North has solid(ish) ♦s, good trump support (but possibly missing an honour in ♥s) and something outside in ♣ or ♠. So a ♦ or ♥ lead is passive and will hand the initiative to declarer. A ♠ looks passive too - though it might turn out to be the winning lead (who knows?) - so I will plump for a ♣ and attack. Partner could have the A or Q and a trick outside the♣. Fortune favours the brave!
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Posted 2014-December-04, 11:57

When opener's shown weakness and nothing else, odds are good that responder has a long suit rather than a tonne of HCP.

Leading a ♠ looks like it (approx) gains when the opps have 11 tricks and S the ♠Q or when P has the ♠K over the ace and an outside entry.
Leading a ♣ looks like it gains (approx) when they have no ♣ first or second-round control, or when P has the Q♠ and an outside entry.

The latter looks more likely to me.
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Posted 2014-December-04, 12:16

I always lead aggressively on these auctions when holding xxx in LHO's long suit. Tempo is usually what is critical here.
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Posted 2014-December-04, 12:22

club, attack!
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Posted 2014-December-04, 12:57

i guess just most agree that declarer will make if given the time. Partner needs a control and we need another trick. If I lead a club I need partner to have the Q and then something somewhere. Leading anything else seems to require more from partner. It's true that even if partner has the club Q and, say, the ace of spades this might not be enough. Declarer wins, draws trump, runs diamonds tossing clubs, gives up a spade. But a spade lead wouldn't do it then either.

So I lead a club.
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Posted 2014-December-04, 15:03

well I was declarer on this hand, leader, I think even by Hog's standard an expert, did lead a club

just wanted to see what others would've lead

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Posted 2014-December-04, 16:24

So club lead gave the contract! So much for aggression
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Posted 2014-December-04, 18:26

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Posted 2014-December-04, 21:07

Bird/Anthias would recommend a passive lead from an unbid suit here, assuming that the opponents are skilled enough to avoid bidding the slam off a cashing AK. This advice is given in their chapter on what to lead against small slams when responder has shown a useful side suit. Incidentally, if the two side suits have comparable top cards, the shorter is preferable. They would lead a spade here. Right again!
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Posted 2014-December-05, 07:04

View PostThe_Badger, on 2014-December-04, 06:49, said:

When an auction goes bang-crash-wallop into slam without any subtlety, it's either cold or relying on a bit of fortune. A guesstimate is that North has solid(ish) ♦s, good trump support (but possibly missing an honour in ♥s) and something outside in ♣ or ♠. So a ♦ or ♥ lead is passive and will hand the initiative to declarer. A ♠ looks passive too - though it might turn out to be the winning lead (who knows?) - so I will plump for a ♣ and attack. Partner could have the A or Q and a trick outside the♣. Fortune favours the brave!

I agree entirely.
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Posted 2014-December-05, 15:15

I would lead a club and the actual hand does nothing to change my opinion.
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Posted 2014-December-05, 19:30

Sometimes the dragon wins.
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