[Cyberyeti]

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What do you lead ?

Does your lead change if partner makes a takeout double instead of passing ?

I suppose I'm more interested in the thought process that went into the selection than the actual lead.

[paulg]

♦6. In the absence of any real information I'll just go for the lead that is most likely to set up some tricks. I didn't post my bridge personality but it would have included aggressive leads (not that I think this is particularly aggressive).

Seems even clearer if partner has shown values.

[mikeh]

I lead a diamond, since my tendency is to be aggressive on opening lead, unless the combination of my hand and the auction suggests otherwise. Here, if partner passed the hand out, I'd expect dummy to be pretty useful for declarer so I'd want to try to establish whatever side winners we have. Nothing is for certain but both experience and book-learning suggest that we are more likely to have success in a suit in which we hold values than in suits where we lack them. We 'need less' from partner in diamonds, to establish a trick or two, than we do in hearts or clubs.

Had partner doubled, I'd find the same lead....and actually feel a little better about it since I'd know I have a re-entry (eventually) and there is less chance, on this auction, of the lead being catastrophically wrong.

edit: I was writing this while paul was posting, and only saw his psot when mine was up...not for the first time, someone said what I said, but more succintly

[wclass___]

Not a spade. Even if dummy has 2♠, i can't get them both out without giving away my ♠ trick.

From the rest ♦ seems most promising. The 9 of diamonds gives some extra safety. Declarer is more likely to finesse through dummy, so i won't finesse partner with my lead.

[Cyberyeti]

I led the diamond, this of course butchered the defence, declarer has AJxx and dummy 10xx. This was in a 32 board teams match in which we won by 10 when neither table defeated 4♠ and it was doubled at the other.

Partner's hand is Ax, Kxx, Kxx, KJxxx, do you double in 4th seat ?

the other two hands are:

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Leading any other suit will beat this, providing partner is awake and ducks when a heart is led and the 9/10 is played from dummy.

[Fluffy]

There is a point for a heart lead when partner doubled, we probably have a fit there wich makes it a bit safer

[MrAce]

Unfortunately i saw the hand now b4 i lead, but didnt change my lead anyway. I would lead ♦6.

[Flameous]

I pick ♦
It's going down with the D lead too, just need to stop giving free tricks to the declarer. (Need to exit safely in Ds or trumps.)
Seems the trump lead would have been the ultimate beating it two. This was the hand for passive actions.

[Viren169]

Cyberyeti, on 2010-November-08, 12:25, said:

I led the diamond, this of course butchered the defence, declarer has AJxx and dummy 10xx. This was in a 32 board teams match in which we won by 10 when neither table defeated 4♠ and it was doubled at the other.

Partner's hand is Ax, Kxx, Kxx, KJxxx, do you double in 4th seat ?

the other two hands are:

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Leading any other suit will beat this, providing partner is awake and ducks when a heart is led and the 9/10 is played from dummy.

Hi,

I think there is a case for a heart lead if partner dbles 4S for t/out.

W/out any bidding I would would have led a small diamond.

ps I would not have dbled 4S with partner's hand.

BR
Viren

[Cyberyeti]

Flameous, on 2010-November-09, 04:05, said:

I pick ♦
It's going down with the D lead too, just need to stop giving free tricks to the declarer. (Need to exit safely in Ds or trumps.)
Seems the trump lead would have been the ultimate beating it two. This was the hand for passive actions.

It's not going down on a ♦ lead, declarer plays the 8 and forces a ♦ entry to dummy to pitch his ♥ on the A♣ or take the ♥ finesse.

It's also never going down 2. If you play 3 rounds of trumps to start, declarer can either play ace and another ♦ or ace and jack of ♥ and either way will hold the losses to 4 tricks as the defence has to help him.