[kfay]

Scoring: MP

(1♦)-3♣-(4♠)
All Pass

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Your partner leads the ♣10.

Let's say you overtake with the J and declarer follows. What now?

[Apollo81]

High club, gotta get the possible trump promotion and who knows whats going on in the red suits.

[cnszsun]

A high ♣ return is risky, declarer is got chance to setup a ♣ by ruff-finesse. Low ♣ return may also be risky, for example, if partner holds ♠Kx or Qxx, declarer can discard a loser on your ♣ forcing partner to ruff with his winner.

[Rebound]

This is the sort of situation that always seems to make my brain hurt. Either a low club or a high one could be right so as often as not I'm tempted to switch altogether to prevent a giving away a trick in the club suit out of pure wishywashyness. I flop back and forth trying to decide to lead low or hight. When I do commit to a lead (in this case in the club suit) I invariably make the wrong choice.

I'd be like to know what y'all think of a heart switch.

[the hog]

Switch to a H. A high C allows declarer to set up a C trick eventually for a pitch.

[whereagles]

It's a guess, and I guess small ♣.

[kfay]

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If you return a ♣ your partner eventually is squeezed in the reds.

[Fluffy]

He kind of deserve it for making imaginative leads having KQJ10xx

[kfay]

Fluffy, on Jan 16 2008, 04:00 PM, said:

He kind of deserve it for making imaginative leads having KQJ10xx

Yeah matmat made the same comment. I'm inclined to agree. I wasn't on defense though so I wasn't too concerned with it.

But you what if the holdings are:

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As East you certainly don't know whether partner has this hand or the original hand. In fact something like this seems a bit more reasonable since normal people would lead K from KQJ etc. Partner made what happens to be the best lead in this 2nd hand and you still have to look out for them by switching to a red suit so i'm disinclined to agree with your sentiments.

[han]

If leading a singleton in the suit my partner bid against a suit contract is the worst I ever do then I'm fine with that.

[the hog]

Hannie, on Jan 17 2008, 07:14 AM, said:

If leading a singleton in the suit my partner bid against a suit contract is the worst I ever do then I'm fine with that.

Agree with this post. There is nothing "imaginative" about leading a suit which partner has bid. Good defence sees the defence prevail anyway.

[Codo]

Fluffy, on Jan 17 2008, 06:00 AM, said:

He kind of deserve it for making imaginative leads having KQJ10xx

I would be close to insulted if my pd fails to lead his singelton in the suit I bid freely on the 3. level just because he has such a lousy side suit.

[brianshark]

The singleton lead only works if pd has the ♣A because otherwise pd is never getting in. And if pd has the ♣A then the ruff can wait because opening leader has the trump ace for control. If either player is more likely to see the eventual danger of being squeezed in the red suits, it's opening leader. So perhaps it should be him leading one of them rather than partner switching to them?