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A 2 part opening lead question--- The Further Misadventures of Rex and Jay

#1 User is offline   microcap 

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Posted 2005-November-10, 04:48

Simple questions, but complex answers no doubt:

When leading from x-x-x against NT in Partner's bid suit, do you like Top, Middle, or Bottom?

When leading from x-x-x against NT in a suit not bid by partner, do you like Top, Middle, or Bottom?

Thanks for the accumulated wisdom, assuming there is some!! ;) :)
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Posted 2005-November-10, 05:05

microcap, on Nov 10 2005, 10:48 AM, said:

Simple questions, but complex answers no doubt:

When leading from x-x-x against NT in Partner's bid suit, do you like Top, Middle, or Bottom?

When leading from x-x-x against NT in a suit not bid by partner, do you like Top, Middle, or Bottom?

Thanks for the accumulated wisdom, assuming there is some!! ;)  :)

If I am very weak and little entries, I'll lead a top card, it may well force a useful card from dummy in a finessable position.

If I do have something, I'll lead a middle one.

If I am very strong, and pard is bound to be broke, leading from xxx does not have a bright future, and usually I'll try to set up one of my suits.
However, leading from xxx might avoid blowing trick, especialy at MP, and especially if I have no 5+ card suit.


I any case, when pard is broke, you can often lead whichever you want from xxx since pard is unlikely to benefit from the signal if he never gets in (indeed when one defender holds all the hcp, then it's the time to try deceptive leads/signals to set some traps to declarer).
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Posted 2005-November-10, 05:33

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When leading from x-x-x against NT in Partner's bid suit, do you like Top, Middle, or Bottom?


The lowest would tend to show an honor, the highest would tend to show two cards only. You have to decide which of these is more useful to partner. Lead low if you have not supported partner. If you have, then lead the highest to show no honor.

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When leading from x-x-x against NT in a suit not bid by partner, do you like Top, Middle, or Bottom?


Top to show no honor.

However, playing Polish leads (2nd and 4th) I always lead the middle one, followed by the lower one to show a tripleton ;)
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Posted 2005-November-10, 05:37

I personnaly lead low in both case (3/5 leads).

Showing you have an honour or not may help (it helps declarer too !) but I think count is more important.

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Posted 2005-November-10, 05:37

a.) When leading from x-x-x against NT in Partner's bid suit, do you like Top, Middle, or Bottom?
Which general lead-agreements does the partnership have?
I like playing 2./4. against NT, so: middle. With some partners we lead 3./5., then small :)
If I supported partner's suit, we play attitude and the lead would be the highest.

b.) When leading from x-x-x against NT in a suit not bid by partner, do you like Top, Middle, or Bottom?
I follow again the general lead-agreement of the partnership, but personally prefer 2./4. . Perhaps we play Smith-Peter ;)

Is it an Indy or a pick-up partnership I would assume standard lead is 4th best and play top of nothing in both cases.

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Posted 2005-November-10, 06:30

Highest leading WARN :

switch! if you can.
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Posted 2005-November-10, 07:32

If I have supported partner's suit, I'll lead the top one. He knows I have three already, so I may as well deny an honour.

If I haven't supported partner's suit, I'll usually lead the bottom one. It sounds like this suit is going to be our source of tricks so I want to encourage pard to play on it.

In an unbid suit I'll usually lead the top one, so partner doesn't think that it is my suit and that it needs establishing.
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Posted 2005-November-10, 08:44

Doesn't matter as long as we have some kind of agreement.
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Posted 2005-November-10, 09:51

1. low (unless my count is know)
2. middle
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Posted 2005-November-10, 11:25

1) 3rd, since I can't lead forth ;)

2) Neither, I tend to lead from my strongest and longest, hoping to hit pd generally only results in looking for new pd at pdship desk <_<

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Posted 2005-November-10, 17:18

In partner's suit : lowest (count), unless partner knows i have 3 in which case the highest, denying an honor.
In a suit not bid by partner : highest, no honor.
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Posted 2005-November-10, 18:47

unless playing something specific like 2/4 leads, i'd lead highest to show no honor
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Posted 2005-November-11, 03:20

Mike Lawrence says to lead:
  • TOP if you have supported (as Mike says, partner knows you have some, so deny an honour)
  • BOTTOM if you have not supported ... as you are unlikely to have Hxx and it is useful to distinguish between two- and three-small.

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