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#1 User is offline   TMorris 

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Posted 2009-July-18, 07:17

What do you lead against the auction

2♥ 6♥

with

♠109xx
♥10xx
♦xxx
♣Axx

and why

2♥ is 6-10. Playing matchpoints, none vulnerable.

Is it a guess?
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Posted 2009-July-18, 07:45

♣A

View Postwyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

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


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Posted 2009-July-18, 07:50

♣A
A blasted slam sometimes has 2 aces missing sometimes 2 losers in the same suit.
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Posted 2009-July-18, 08:04

H*.
Standart situation - limit ruffs, ♣A lead maybe solve some declarer problems.
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Posted 2009-July-18, 08:20

♣A
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Posted 2009-July-18, 08:52

Thanks all. I did lead A♣ but wanted to check my thinking was right
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Posted 2009-July-18, 10:27

♣A, always against these type of auctions. The argument is even stronger when you say it's matchpoints because if you don't lead it now, it is most likely going to run away on dummy's side suit.
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Posted 2009-July-18, 10:58

♣A is unlikelly to work IMO, LHO controls all the suits. low club might be better
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Posted 2009-July-18, 12:18

TMorris, on Jul 18 2009, 04:52 PM, said:

Thanks all.  I did lead A♣ but wanted to check my thinking was right

You don't even have to think.

Just lean back, and the ♣A will lead itself. B)
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Posted 2009-July-18, 12:27

anything but the club A is an error, imo. Doesn't mean the A will work, but so what?

On this auction, the opps rate to have between 12 and 15 top tricks... so if you don't take it, you may not get it... plus sometimes LHO is gambling that you won't find the lead....
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Posted 2009-July-18, 13:48

♣A. Automatic.

Like Mike said, it may not work, but it is clearly the right lead.
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Posted 2009-July-18, 14:42

I think a low club would be legit at imps, but never at MP.
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Posted 2009-July-18, 15:46

Hi,

A trump.

I am not sure a trump will beat it, but it is a safe
lead.

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Posted 2009-July-18, 17:03

Jlall, on Jul 19 2009, 08:42 AM, said:

I think a low club would be legit at imps, but never at MP.

except when it beats the contract

but I agree it is a wild gamble at MPs when you might have just been entitled to one trick and a reasonable or at least not a really bad score.
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