[JonnyQuest]

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West leads a Coded ♠9-2-5-K

What suit do I attack first? Why?

[32519]

JonnyQuest, on 2013-June-03, 20:33, said:

West leads a Coded ♠9-2-5-K

What did the ♠9 imply? Top of nothing? Attitude lead? Something else?

[manudude03]

32519, on 2013-June-05, 11:17, said:

What did the ♠9 imply? Top of nothing? Attitude lead? Something else?

Coded= 0 or 2 higher. My gut is to attack hearts first finessing against East. The defense will probably be helpless to play clubs for us later on regardless, while if we play clubs first, there's a danger that clubs are 5-2 and they duck the first.

[gszes]

so much work to be done and we need a fair amount of luck.
I will start with a low heat toward the 9. I really dont want another
spade from lho at this point as the opening lead may have hit
our weak spot. I want to delay playing the spade suit further until
I have a good idea how many tricks i need there. A dia return from
rho (if they win the heart Q) is no great thing for me either but at least
I can rise with the K (i said i needed luck and lost the heart finesse)
and maybe create some confusion about what i am holding.

[CSGibson]

I would go after 1 round of clubs. If they duck, I will switch to hearts, but I want to get at least one club trick now, and possibly watch for signals on how that suit is dividing. I also don't really want to commit to playing hearts right away, because it is always possible that RHO will take a club and switch to a diamond, and I might get some sort of count on that suit also. Finally, playing on hearts right away has the potential to hurt our communication.

[nige1]

JonnyQuest, on 2013-June-03, 20:33, said:

West leads a Coded ♠

9-2-5-K What suit do I attack first? Why?

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You hope to make 2 x ♠ , 4 X ♥, 2 X ♣ and the game-going trick in a pointed suit. Perhaps you should drive out ♣A first, trying to postpone the ♥Q guess. If LHO has ♦A and RHO has ♠Q, then defenders are likely to defeat you by several tricks. There is no great hurry to lose an additional undertrick by misguessing hearts early.

[FrancesHinden]

maybe I'm missing something but even if you get hearts right you still only have 8 tricks.
I might well start by ducking a diamond to see what happens next