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#1 User is offline   grrigg 

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Posted 2008-January-28, 23:49

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The bidding is starting with partner 2♥-(3♣)-4♥-(5♣) all pass (or so I wish B) )

1. Do you agree with 4♥?

2. What do you lead against 5♣?
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Posted 2008-January-29, 03:47

1. sure, why not? I might have bid 3♠ on the way, but 4♥ is ok.

2. ♥J, to keep the lead if necessary/possible.
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Posted 2008-January-29, 03:49

1) Yes

2) ♠A
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Posted 2008-January-29, 03:51

A non heart lead is way too deep for me. I hope partner can win the ace and play a spade through the king. Even if we can start ace of spades spade ruff, we still need a third trick, and if that trick is the ace of hearts (seems very likely for a trick that our weak 2 bidding partner would have) a heart lead would have been fine anyways. Leading a spade is aiming at a very narrow target of having 3 tricks without the ace of hearts and one of them going away if we fail to lead a spade.
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Posted 2008-January-29, 03:57

I prefer to play in spades than hearts, I'd bid 4♠.


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Posted 2008-January-29, 08:17

bidding was fine

Heart lead.
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Posted 2008-January-29, 10:22

whereagles, on Jan 29 2008, 04:47 AM, said:

2. ♥J, to keep the lead if necessary/possible.

A low heart, so we can get a spade through.
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Posted 2008-January-29, 10:25

Apollo81, on Jan 29 2008, 10:22 AM, said:

whereagles, on Jan 29 2008, 04:47 AM, said:

2. ♥J, to keep the lead if necessary/possible.

A low heart, so we can get a spade through.

Also, I would really like partner to know the heart count.
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Posted 2008-January-29, 10:43

agree. HJ was hasty
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Posted 2008-January-29, 11:05

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Posted 2008-January-29, 13:52

Jlall, on Jan 29 2008, 04:51 AM, said:

A non heart lead is way too deep for me. I hope partner can win the ace and play a spade through the king. Even if we can start ace of spades spade ruff, we still need a third trick, and if that trick is the ace of hearts (seems very likely for a trick that our weak 2 bidding partner would have) a heart lead would have been fine anyways. Leading a spade is aiming at a very narrow target of having 3 tricks without the ace of hearts and one of them going away if we fail to lead a spade.

I may well have led the ♠A, but this post persuaded me that the heart is better.
On a bad day the 3rd trick that gets away after the heart lead is partner's spade ruff, but in every other case the heart lead should work at least as well.
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