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Poll: You lead CK C2 [C5 (low = Encouraging) 2 (6 member(s) have cast votes)

What do you lead at trick 2

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Posted 2018-October-30, 07:48



Scottish National League (IMPs and VPs)
You lead K 2 5 (low = Encouraging) J
At trick 2 what do you lead?

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Posted 2018-October-30, 08:24

View Postnige1, on 2018-October-30, 07:48, said:



Scottish National League
You lead K 2 5 (low = Encouraging) J
At trick 2 what do you lead?


Are you really playing attitude signals when there is a singleton in dummy? In my world this would be a suit preference situation, so a low club asks for diamonds and a high club asks for spades and a middle club is encouraging for clubs or neutral.

So I switch to the king of diamonds.
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Posted 2018-October-30, 08:45

View Postpaulg, on 2018-October-30, 08:24, said:

Are you really playing attitude signals when there is a singleton in dummy?

A low is encouraging. A high would ask for a switch.




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Posted 2018-October-30, 09:00

View Postnige1, on 2018-October-30, 08:45, said:

A low is encouraging. A high would ask for a switch.

I guess I would continue with a club then with these agreements as a high club would ask for a diamond.
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Posted 2018-October-30, 10:03

Partner rates to have a trick for the double. There is just room for partner to have an ace and if it is the A you might need to lead King and another diamond, before declarer discards diamond(s) on the top spade. But this will look pretty silly if partner has the trump ace instead! A spade only looks right if partner is ruffing and a trump might find partner with QXX and declarer about to play for the drop.

I'm continuing clubs.
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Posted 2018-October-30, 12:17

It looks like clubs are 1-1, and declarer doesn't have a spade fit. So declarer is at least 5-5 in the reds. It looks like partner is asking for a diamond back, so I'm going to play the ten in case it's 5-7 in the reds and partner has the singleton A. I don't know if it's imps or mps, though. mps, I might go for the extra trick with the K.
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Posted 2018-October-31, 18:54

spade 3 it may seem like picking nits to choose the 3 vs the 2 BUT the 3 just might look like shortness to declarer and give them a false impression on the distribution of the hand. I would avoid the spade Q as our spots will all too easily allow declarer to set up spades with 1 loser if they need to. If partner has the dia A the low club is a horrific choice at trick 1 so a dia lead is out an leading a trump might be doing declarers work for them. At least a spade is doing something declarer might have to do themselves.
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Posted 2018-October-31, 19:08

I should have led a spade. I don’t like the methods. But if partner has 5 clubs, he wasn’t doubling expecting us to be cashing even one club trick and then scoring 2 side tricks. I think he has a spade void and couldn’t risk a high club because he can’t stand a diamond switch. How’s void xxx Axxxx Qxxxx for the 5C bid, giving South 109x AKQJxx xxx J.

South would be bidding 5 as a 2-way shot.
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Posted 2018-November-01, 17:34


Scottish National League (IMPs and VPs)
You lead K 2 5 (low = Encouraging) J
At trick 2 what do you lead?
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The full deal is on the left
PaulG and TramTicket found the winning defense of continuing A.
I switched to a . Declarer cashed AK, throwing her other .
Then she ran T.
Partner covered the next but declarer won and
Led a small to force another dummy entry,
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Posted 2018-November-01, 17:48

You've been done partially by your system, if I knew partner had another club I would play like that, but too much risk of 1-1.
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