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Opening lead #3 (three of a perfect pair)
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Posted 2014-December-22, 04:46
Matchpoints, adv pard
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Posted 2014-December-22, 07:08
Depends on oppo strength. If they're competent I'll try to set up a ♦. If they're BBO randoms who both could have balanced 15 counts, I'll go for a passive ♠.
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Posted 2014-December-22, 09:10
Opps are BBO randoms with "adv" in profile. Previous hands label them as "Rueful Rabbits". Dunno if that helps 
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Posted 2014-December-22, 11:56
A diamond looks obvious to me at all forms of scoring.
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Posted 2014-December-24, 04:47
Thx all.
Judging that 6♠ might have been based on a long club suit, I lead a diamond. In practice it doesn't matter, as hands were:
The lead blows a trick, but declarer as 12 anyway. Still, change minor suit queens and this is the killing lead.
The good news is that the Rabbit contrived to go TWO DOWN
Judging that 6♠ might have been based on a long club suit, I lead a diamond. In practice it doesn't matter, as hands were:
The lead blows a trick, but declarer as 12 anyway. Still, change minor suit queens and this is the killing lead.
The good news is that the Rabbit contrived to go TWO DOWN
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Posted 2014-December-24, 07:36
Two balanced 15 counts, you say? (okay, if you squint a bit 
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Posted 2014-December-24, 10:14
I know I already see the low dia lead is a waste but I would try
at IMPS especially since there seems to be much danger of opps
setting up clubs and a dia lead might easily be the only way to
set them (it requires the least from p). At MP I would be a tad more
leary since giving away 1 trick can be just as disastrous as setting
the contract can be great. We have no strong reason to assume the
opps belong in slam so going for the gusto has much less to recommend
it at MP scoring.
There is also the slightly added risk that the dia lead might let the
slam leak home. This can be quite brutal at both forms of scoring but it
just feels worse at MP since we are also risking giving up an overtrick
(we care not a whit about at IMPS).
at IMPS especially since there seems to be much danger of opps
setting up clubs and a dia lead might easily be the only way to
set them (it requires the least from p). At MP I would be a tad more
leary since giving away 1 trick can be just as disastrous as setting
the contract can be great. We have no strong reason to assume the
opps belong in slam so going for the gusto has much less to recommend
it at MP scoring.
There is also the slightly added risk that the dia lead might let the
slam leak home. This can be quite brutal at both forms of scoring but it
just feels worse at MP since we are also risking giving up an overtrick
(we care not a whit about at IMPS).
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Posted 2014-December-25, 14:29
I'd lead ♦
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