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Your lead?

Poll: Your lead? (28 member(s) have cast votes)

What's your lead?

  1. Spade (26 votes [92.86%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 92.86%

  2. Heart (1 votes [3.57%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 3.57%

  3. Diamond (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  4. Club (1 votes [3.57%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 3.57%

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#1 User is offline   Free 

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Posted 2014-December-14, 03:48



Your lead? Is it obvious or rather close?

Edit: imp scoring
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Posted 2014-December-14, 04:11

View PostFree, on 2014-December-14, 03:48, said:



Your lead? Is it obvious or rather close?


Close enough that I ask for the form of scoring, though I'm not yet sure that influences my answer.

EDIT:
Now that I've thought about it,

I lead 5♣ at IMPs
I lead Q♠ at MPs at a tournament
I lead 5♣ at MPs at the club, because it's more likely contracts will vary, and also because if contracts are the same, I have good chances of gaining later in the play and so should just make the field lead to reduce variance.
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Posted 2014-December-14, 04:14

View PostFree, on 2014-December-14, 03:48, said:



Your lead? Is it obvious or rather close?

H8. Second choice SQ. (Not obvious)
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Posted 2014-December-14, 04:32

It takes me a milisecond to lead a spade, I must be missing something.

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Posted 2014-December-14, 05:08

♠Q. Seems best for both safety and trying to develop tricks.
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Posted 2014-December-14, 05:28

View PostFree, on 2014-December-14, 03:48, said:

Your lead? Is it obvious or rather close?
IMO ♠ = 10, ♥ = 8, ♣ = 6, ♦ = 5.
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Posted 2014-December-14, 05:30

♠Q looks pretty obvious to me.
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Posted 2014-December-14, 16:11

Partner couldn't chirp 1♥, the 1nt bidder doesn't usually have a 4-card major (unless it's me with a 4 triple) makes the ♠Q obvious imo.
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Posted 2014-December-14, 16:49

♠Q seems like the best shot.
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Posted 2014-December-14, 18:05

S Q. I don't see the difficulty here.
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Posted 2014-December-14, 18:53

it's not close.
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Posted 2014-December-14, 23:57

This isn't at all clear to me. Any suit (including a D) could work out best. If my hand was weaker (with the CJ instead of the K for example), I would lead the top H in hopes of hitting partner's strong suit. A S is my last choice because there is too much risk that dummy might have ATx or KTx of S, and my S lead could give away the setting trick. With this hand, I lead the C5 in hopes of taking 3 Cs plus a S plus a D.
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Posted 2014-December-15, 04:20

Any suit can always work out best. Just that a minor suit lead has a much smaller probability to be the winner. At least it looks so to me :)
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Posted 2014-December-15, 05:43

A C lead should be worth zero in Nigel's ratings.
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Posted 2014-December-15, 12:22

At IMPs a ♠ lead stands out a mile. At MPs I consider a more passive ♥ lead, then probably lead a ♠ anyway.
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