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#1 User is offline   VegasVern 

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Posted 2009-March-18, 00:35

Scoring: MP


The Bidding: My partner is N and opens the bidding 1♠


1♠ 1NT Pass 2♦
P 3♥ Pass 4♥
P P P

Would anyone have ventured 2♠ with my hand? (Just to interfere.)

I led the J♠, but a diamond lead sets them. (Partner has A5.) I'm just curious what everyone would lead in this situation. Thanks.
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Posted 2009-March-18, 01:43

When you want just honest answers, better don't state which lead had set the contract.

With this hand, it is possible that any given card is the only one to set the contract, but there is no evidence that one particular suit is better then another.

So I would stick with the golden rule of leading: Lead partners suit.
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Posted 2009-March-18, 01:49

♠J is pretty obvious. I don't think many, if any, experts would find the killing diamond lead.

And no, I wouldn't have bid 2♠. What good does it serve? To encourage pard to bid 4♠, hoping for a ruff you can't make? :rolleyes:
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Posted 2009-March-18, 02:03

I would lead ♠J, and I wouldn't have bid 2♠.
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Posted 2009-March-18, 06:01

Hi,

#1 Pass after 1NT
#2 Jack of spades, wtp?

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Posted 2009-March-18, 06:03

♠J should be the lead, regardless of the result.

 wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


 rbforster, on 2012-May-20, 21:04, said:

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Posted 2009-March-18, 08:03

I would lead the J of ♠. However, because this was a question, even before the answer was stated, you knew a diamond lead would be better.
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Posted 2009-March-19, 12:03

I don't think the ♠J is so obvious a lead here. It blows a trick if declarer has AQT, and is extremely likely to blow one if partner has AQxxx and declarer has KTx. Furthermore, there's the possibility of what happened on the actual deal.

Now I'm not saying I wouldn't have led the ♠J (guess we'll never know since this wasn't posted as a problem), but at least consider that perhaps it might be better to lead something that the notrumper isn't prepared for.
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Posted 2009-March-19, 22:19

♦8. wtp?
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Posted 2009-March-20, 01:06

Leading partner's suit seems the natural thing to do with that hand. Thinking about declarer's hand, spades is the only suit he has guaranteed stopped so the J may blow a trick or at least grant tempo to declarer. Trying to guess which other suit to lead - if I have decided against spade lead - diamond. Lead from strength. But in the end, I prob still lead the spade.
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Posted 2009-March-20, 03:02

EricK, on Mar 18 2009, 03:03 PM, said:

I would lead ♠J, and I wouldn't have bid 2♠.

Same here.
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