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What to lead? What to lead?

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Posted 2005-January-09, 12:06

♠ lead seems best to me
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Posted 2005-January-09, 12:06

i don't quite understand either... there seems to be 2 plays after the ♦A, either switch to a club then or play the ♦Q

what am i missing?
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Posted 2005-January-09, 12:11

DrTodd13, on Jan 9 2005, 10:56 AM, said:

In our system, after 1♣, any bid by responder 1♠ and higher is less than invitational. 1♣-1♥ is all invite+ hands and 1♣-1♦ are less than invitational hands that don't have their own suit or want to check back for 5♥ with opener.

1♣-1♦-2/3/4♥ are all various ♥ preempts. Responder could be very weak with 0 hearts so the higher the heart level the more hearts are required.

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Hi Todd

Sorry if this sounds cranky, but why should I care?

Is there a general principle that provides some value here, or is this just a random guessing game?
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Posted 2005-January-09, 15:07

Of course, opening leads are a guessing game. When this problem arose at the table, there was an advocate there for a lead of each of the suits. Granted, these people weren't very good so I wanted to see what the forums crowd would have to say. I see that there is no clear lead on this hand because the people here too have suggested the lead of every suit. I don't think there is any logic that really dictates that a ♣ lead is best but it was interesting to see everybody's arguments for their selected leads. Sorry if this discussion wasn't interesting for the rest of you.

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