What do you lead? A strong London league; if you know the hand, comment but do not say what works. IMPs as you would expect for a league.
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#1
Posted 2014-November-06, 08:10
What do you lead? A strong London league; if you know the hand, comment but do not say what works. IMPs as you would expect for a league.
#3
Posted 2014-November-06, 10:31
Assume we can grab 2 diamonds and partner's likely 4 card trump suit comes in as another winner. Now declarer probably has the rest of the tricks, since clubs behave so well for him.
However, I lead the diamond Ace since I think that it needs a little less from partner to be the winning lead than does a heart. A black suit is impossible.
#4
Posted 2014-November-06, 10:32
lamford, on 2014-November-06, 08:10, said:
What do you lead? A strong London league; if you know the hand, comment but do not say what works.
#5
Posted 2014-November-06, 10:50
But I would lead the ♦A regardless.
#6
Posted 2014-November-06, 11:29
whereagles, on 2014-November-06, 10:50, said:
But I would lead the ♦A regardless.
I think 3S showed 5-6, at least that is what we were told by dummy, and declarer confirmed it.
#7
Posted 2014-November-06, 16:38
Agree with WesleyC - passing 1♣ was weedy. 2♦ for me.
#8
Posted 2014-November-06, 17:17
#9
Posted 2014-November-06, 18:00
#10
Posted 2014-November-06, 18:45
the hog, on 2014-November-06, 18:00, said:
I agree with your view of a 1♦ overcall. It is not that it contains any great danger, but it should show a good hand. However, I disagree strongly with the A♦ lead. In my view a club is a stand-out. It beats the contract most of the time partner has a void, and may beat the contract when partner has a trump trick and the ace of hearts and a singleton club. Partner had xxxx AKxx xxxxx none and a club lead beat the contract immediately (declarer was 5-1-1-6 with a good hand). But if he had held Axx Axxx xxxxx x a club lead would still have been a huge winner.
#12
Posted 2014-November-07, 02:51
"It's only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize there is always a way to solve problems without using violence!"
"Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without being condemning of one's view's and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say."
#13
Posted 2014-November-07, 02:51
"It's only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize there is always a way to solve problems without using violence!"
"Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without being condemning of one's view's and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say."
#14
Posted 2014-November-07, 03:34
the hog, on 2014-November-06, 18:00, said:
Hence 2♦.
#15
Posted 2014-November-07, 06:01
(1) Start forcing declarer immediately, and try to give partner trump control.
(2) Try to set up a club ruff.
I think that option A is more likely. Put me down for the diamond ace.
I do not think that a club void is at all likely. With 3-4 in the black suits responder would have made more of an effort to play in clubs.
#16
Posted 2014-November-07, 09:10
Jinksy, on 2014-November-07, 03:34, said:
2d is even sillier than 1d, but please continue to bid this way. It just reinforces my beliefs based on previous pists.
#17
Posted 2014-November-07, 09:15
ahydra
#18
Posted 2014-November-07, 10:40
the hog, on 2014-November-07, 09:10, said:
I can hardly believe I'm still optimistic enough to ask this, but do you have a reason for this claim? Perhaps one based on - y'know - reason rather than your traditional 'a reely reely good player I once played with told me this and he was awesome and better than anyone you've played with!!11!!'?
Advantages:
Good enough suit and distribution to not get Xed
Favourable vul
Takes lots of opps' bidding space
Good chance of LHO playing the contract, so it helps P with lead
P has passed, so no chance of preempting him
Weak enough that opps might have slam
Disadvantages:
Certain BBO forumers were taught by Obi-Wan Kenobi that they needed an extra D for the bid and find it morally abhorrent without one
#19
Posted 2014-November-07, 10:52
ahydra, on 2014-November-07, 09:15, said:
ahydra
Maybe, but if P has two ♠ winners and declarer a ♦ (or two), a ♣ singleton would serve as well (and the forcing defence might not work if dummy shows up with something like xxx Axxxx Kx QTx)
#20
Posted 2014-November-07, 11:23
As I mentioned in my earlier post, I had difficulty seeing how the diamond A lead (which I chose anyway) could lead to 4 defensive tricks. A club lead points an easy way to 4 tricks if partner holds a stiff and an early trump trick, and of course an even easier path if he holds a void and either we get 2 diamonds, or he has another trick to go with 2 ruffs.
So at imps, I agree that the club lead is best. At mps, I am still a diamond leader, since the club rates to lose a tempo and seems to me more likely to cost us an important defensive trick than to set the contract.