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Lead My partner was mad...

Poll: your lead? (33 member(s) have cast votes)

your lead?

  1. J-S (2 votes [6.06%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.06%

  2. Small-S (9 votes [27.27%])

    Percentage of vote: 27.27%

  3. 9-H (15 votes [45.45%])

    Percentage of vote: 45.45%

  4. Small-H (1 votes [3.03%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.03%

  5. Big-D (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  6. 9-D (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  7. Ace-C (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  8. Small-C (6 votes [18.18%])

    Percentage of vote: 18.18%

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#1 User is offline   mtvesuvius 

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Posted 2009-March-29, 18:32

All Vulnerable at IMPs, you hold:

♠Jxx
♥9x
♦9xxx
♣ATxx

RHO opens 1NT which is raised to 3 by LHO... Your lead?

4th Best Leads... Standard Honor Leads. Ace attitude, King Count.

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Posted 2009-March-29, 21:16

Small spade. A10xx, imo, isn't a great holding to lead from. 2nd highest diamond is too passive.
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Posted 2009-March-29, 21:29

I'm trying to figure out what leads partner could legitimately hate. I can only see a gripe with an anticonventional heart or diamond spot or one of the club honors.

I'm leading a mundane low spade.
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Posted 2009-March-29, 21:32

♥9 for me.

Don't like to lead from ATxx, leading from ♦xxxx seems a bit passive on this auction, Jxx is also not an attractive suit to lead from.
So by default I lead the heart, but I don't feel particularly strongly about this.
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Posted 2009-March-29, 21:51

The spade jack is pretty sexy, I'm sure thats what jdonn would lead.

I like a club for lack of better choices, usually I wouldn't lead from this holding in a minor but I don't like either major option and a diamond is for matchpoints.
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Posted 2009-March-30, 01:15

I'd lead a diamond, whatever the form of scoring. 9xxx isn't purely passive, and any other suit seems so likely to give away a trick without setting anything up.

I can't imagine why anyone would lead the jack of spades. Usually one does this either to pin a singleton spot card in declarer's hand or to hold the lead for a further finesse against dummy. There's no reason to think that either of these is necessary on this hand.

The only other way we might hope to gain from leading ♠J is if declarer misplaces the 10. That is (or should be) more than balanced by the risk that partner will misplace the 10, as well as the risk that ♠J just costs a trick by four. There's a reason that the books recommend leading low from Jxx.
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Posted 2009-March-30, 03:25

Club seems ok. Underleading an ace at NT is usually a good lead.
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Posted 2009-March-30, 04:06

Small diamond.

For lack of anything better to lead.

Spades are out.
I dont like leadinf away from the club suit. It might easily give away a trick, or a tempo.
Hearts and diamonds are left, where diamonds win by a small margin.
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Posted 2009-March-30, 09:10

9♥. Yesterday, today, tomorrow and until the end of time.
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Posted 2009-March-30, 09:19

Sex sells.

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Posted 2009-March-30, 09:38

A heart.

Partner will be sitting on at least 4 hearts, 5 very likely,
and I try to set up his heart.

Not sure, what the systemic lead from 9x is, I voted 9,
but if it is the x, that is fine as well.

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Posted 2009-March-30, 16:57

I opted for the 9♥. Turns out partner had the A♦ and the KJxx♣ and didn't switch to ♣ looking at Qx in dummy. I'm amazed the variety of responses here... So I guess this was a real problem.
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Posted 2009-March-30, 17:03

I'd have led a small spade, like the substantial majority, and considered it a close call over the majority choice 9♥. Oops. Guess that's why Justin has a star!
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Posted 2009-March-30, 17:25

Even before reading the posts, I was leading a club. It is boring, and I don't generally rely on adages, but there is a reason why 4th best from longest and strongest worked in whist, in auction bridge and continues to be very playable to this day (altho many now choose a different spot, they still choose the same suit for the same reason). I didn't think it was close.
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Posted 2009-March-30, 18:28

BTW I think a big plus factor for leading your suit is that partner doesn't have to find a tough shift later. Like on a diamond lead I bet partner wasnt just winning the ace and playing a club, even if you led a high one.
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Posted 2009-March-30, 20:09

at imps 9 of H seams pretty clearcut.
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Posted 2009-March-30, 23:44

mtvesuvius, on Mar 29 2009, 07:32 PM, said:

All Vulnerable at IMPs, you hold:

♠Jxx
♥9x
♦9xxx
♣ATxx

RHO opens 1NT which is raised to 3 by LHO... Your lead?

4th Best Leads... Standard Honor Leads. Ace attitude, King Count.

(Playing a Sectional Swiss Teams against a C team, if that affects your decision)

I would have tried a nonexpert lead of low club.
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Posted 2009-March-31, 01:52

JLOL, on Mar 31 2009, 01:28 AM, said:

BTW I think a big plus factor for leading your suit is that partner doesn't have to find a tough shift later. Like on a diamond lead I bet partner wasnt just winning the ace and playing a club, even if you led a high one.

Well I would lead a highish one (though I wouldn't waste the nine), and I'd also be playing Smith Echo. That ought to tell him whether there's any future in the diamond suit. I agree that sometimes he'll think he should be switching but may not know what to switch to, but I think that will be the exception rather than the rule.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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Posted 2009-March-31, 01:56

JLOL, on Mar 29 2009, 10:51 PM, said:

The spade jack is pretty sexy, I'm sure thats what jdonn would lead.

For someone so known, I'm really not known.

Everyone knows I do that, but no one knows when. :D

I admit I would lead some spade.
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