[Badmonster]

Your p makes a lead, from the top of a sequence or touching honors. You give negative attitude. The trick holds and he leads the next card in the sequence. Do you give suit preference here?

[skjaeran]

That really depends on the situation - how many cards dummy hold in the suit, how many cards partner can be expected to have etc - and, not to forget, if we're defending a suit or no trump contract.

[jtfanclub]

Badmonster, on Jun 24 2007, 03:47 PM, said:

Your p makes a lead, from the top of a sequence or touching honors. You give negative attitude. The trick holds and he leads the next card in the sequence. Do you give suit preference here?

If I give a negative response to a top-of-sequence suit, and partner continues it, I play whatever I think will confuse declarer the most, since partner is obviously enamoured of his suit, and I will no doubt have a chance to give him an honest signal by the time he runs out of said suit (usually my first discard). Declarer seems to be holding up until I run out of the suit, so I don't want to do anything that will let him know my count. And since concealing my length and signalling a suit at the same time is beyond my abilities....

[Fluffy]

In general I would give count, but as Harald says every case is different

[han]

I generally would give count.

[Badmonster]

Original count or current?

[skjaeran]

Generally I give count. I use udca and original count.

[han]

Badmonster, on Jun 25 2007, 08:28 PM, said:

Original count or current?

The one I have agreed to give.