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Lead problems by Apollo1201

Poll: What would you lead (10 member(s) have cast votes)

With the first hand below

  1. S4 (1 votes [10.00%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 10.00%

  2. HJ (8 votes [80.00%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 80.00%

  3. D4 (1 votes [10.00%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 10.00%

  4. C3 (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  5. Other (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

With the second hand below

  1. SK (2 votes [20.00%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 20.00%

  2. SQ (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  3. S4 (1 votes [10.00%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 10.00%

  4. HT (2 votes [20.00%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 20.00%

  5. H9 (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  6. H4 (5 votes [50.00%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 50.00%

  7. D8 (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  8. CJ (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  9. Other (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

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Posted 2019-June-16, 16:46


First hand
WE League. IMPS.
Your lead

Second hand
WE League. IMPS
Your lead

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Posted 2019-June-17, 06:02

On the first hand, what would East have meant by double or the various 2-level bids ?

I got a 'server error' trying to vote for the second hand.
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Posted 2019-June-17, 11:08

View Postpescetom, on 2019-June-17, 06:02, said:

On the first hand, what would East have meant by double or the various 2-level bids ?

X = 5C + 4M
2C = MM
2D = 5D + 4M
Rest natural
But she is a conservative balancer. Especially red...
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Posted 2019-June-18, 10:09

You should change the diamond 4 to the diamond 2. 3rd/5th is normally against suit contracts only. For me, it was close between the heart and the diamond.
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Posted 2019-June-18, 23:39

Thanks all for your comments.

On deal 1, I lead the HJ like many of you. Just to catch dummy with a low D singleton and KQ9x H. I thought H would be a safe lead, giving away nothing, while D (I hesitated a lot on that one) could be ok but could also help declarer a lot, with such a broken suit... We lost a tempo (p had KJxxx D) and declarer could set up her C’s while we could only do our CA and some spades for -120. At the other table, teammates quickly ended up -100 on the D lead.

On deal 2, I lead SQ (for attitude) rather than H. Five small with unclear entries made me think that S could be settled more easily. Actually, the HT would have been much harder for declarer (Jx in dummy, AQx in partner, Kxx declarer, and xxxx S in partner). Fortunately, teammates made 9 tricks vs. 10 at our table.

We both thought it was close décisions in any case. But just wanted to check here.
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