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You hold:
xx
T98
A9xx
AJxx
RHO is dealer. They are playing 2/1 and have an uncontested auction of:
1♠-1NT
2♥-3♠
4♠
1NT=Forcing, 3♠= 3 card Limit Raise.
What's your lead?
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Posted 2008-August-18, 03:00
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Posted 2008-August-18, 03:30
♥10
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Posted 2008-August-18, 04:51
trump
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Posted 2008-August-18, 05:26
A trump.
Actually I want to go as passive as possible, and I dont
want to help declarer to develop his heart tricks,
... ,but instead I help declarer draw trumps.
With kind regards
Marlowe
Actually I want to go as passive as possible, and I dont
want to help declarer to develop his heart tricks,
... ,but instead I help declarer draw trumps.
With kind regards
Marlowe
With kind regards
Uwe Gebhardt (P_Marlowe)
Uwe Gebhardt (P_Marlowe)
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Posted 2008-August-18, 05:29
If hearts were better, it would be a textbook trump lead. Still a trump lead in MHO, but it looks so obvious, that it is probably wrong on this deal.
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Posted 2008-August-20, 08:08
Nar, I didn't intend any trickiness and I thought and still think a trump lead is a stand out lead as well.
I was in fact the declarer on this deal. The lead was ♦A and continued won in dummy. Spade to A, club up with Ace popping and another diamond, then a heart through which I won and ran the ♠10 for 1 off.
I was in fact the declarer on this deal. The lead was ♦A and continued won in dummy. Spade to A, club up with Ace popping and another diamond, then a heart through which I won and ran the ♠10 for 1 off.
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Posted 2008-August-20, 08:23
I would have led ♦A as well. Running the ♠T is quite a position.
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Posted 2008-August-20, 08:26
I don't understand running the S10.
I thought it was a horrible lead problem, and was debating whether to lead the DA or a low club (and this is from someone who almost never underleads an ace).
I thought it was a horrible lead problem, and was debating whether to lead the DA or a low club (and this is from someone who almost never underleads an ace).
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Posted 2008-August-20, 08:31
Maybe South has a 1444 with 4 baby hearts - and trying to set up minor suit tricks seems like the best defense. Maybe he had some other reason for leading a diamond.
Anyway, running the ♠10 seems to me too big a view to take.
*Edit* Oops my example is wrong since you would most likely spot that LHO shows out when you start to run the 10, but the point I was trying to make is unchanged.
Anyway, running the ♠10 seems to me too big a view to take.
*Edit* Oops my example is wrong since you would most likely spot that LHO shows out when you start to run the 10, but the point I was trying to make is unchanged.
This post has been edited by 655321: 2008-August-20, 18:55
That's impossible. No one can give more than one hundred percent. By definition that is the most anyone can give.
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Posted 2008-August-20, 08:46
Actually I remember something else now. This hand was played amongst friends during a late night, and I didn't give it too much thought for it. After the heart switch I decided to risk playing 2 rounds of hearts ending in hand before deciding what to do with the trump suit. LHO had played H10 and H9 with RHO contributing a small heart and a higher one.
I then didn't really understand the DA lead if there may have been other "attractive" leads available, hence I ran the T. I knew I was taking quite a position but thought it was now or never so I gave it a try
I'm a one who rarely leads unsupported aces that doesn't appear very 'necessary' so maybe someone can enlighten me on it!
I then didn't really understand the DA lead if there may have been other "attractive" leads available, hence I ran the T. I knew I was taking quite a position but thought it was now or never so I gave it a try
I'm a one who rarely leads unsupported aces that doesn't appear very 'necessary' so maybe someone can enlighten me on it!
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We are all connected to each other biologically, to the Earth chemically, and to the rest of the universe atomically.
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We are all connected to each other biologically, to the Earth chemically, and to the rest of the universe atomically.
We're in the universe, and the universe is in us.
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Posted 2008-August-20, 12:03
Too big but good type of thought process, you were just wrong in some assumptions.
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