[BunnyGo]

You hold:

942, KQ, AJT6, K943 in 2nd seat all Red. The auction (opponents only)

1H-1S
2H-3N
4H-AP

What's your lead?

Spoiler

I led the club 9, finding this dummy:

AT65, 3, 95, AQT752

Tricks:

1) 9, A, 6, J
2) Club T, 8, Diamond 2, Club K

Now what?

Are either of your decisions different at IMPs?

[whereagles]

Heart K. I don't think spades are going to provide much in terms of discards, so I think I can afford to go passive.

[han]

I would lead the club 4, not the 9. I take it you thought partner would be almost broke so the chance of misleading declarer is greater than the chance of misleading declarer. That may be true.

If declarer has Kx AJxxxxx Kxx x we can beat this by playing a spade. If declarer then wins in hand and plays the ace of hearts and another, we can beat the contract by playing another spade.

If declarer has KQx A10xxxxx Qx x then we need to play a diamond, but I think that this is quite a bit less likely.

[billw55]

BunnyGo, on 2011-November-11, 06:30, said:

Spoiler

I led the club 9, finding this dummy:

AT65, 3, 95, AQT752

Tricks:

1) 9, A, 6, J
2) Club T, 8, Diamond 2, Club K

Now what?

Spoiler

Now I wish I still had the ♣9

[Fluffy]

contrary to Nuno, I think going pasive here is a mistake co declarer has shortness somewhere, and leading from KQ when declarer might make a double losing finese is also a bad idea.

I´d lead a club, my sytemic one is third.


on the spoiler...

Spoiler

I lead ♠9 now to try to score ♠K and ♦AJ if its possible, ♥KQ means we have one more time even if declarer has ♠K.

Making partner ruff with 3 hearts can cost if he has a honnor, but I think it is not very likelly. Even then, if he has ♥Axx we can recover the trump trick by making he ruff a 4th club later.

[Hanoi5]

I think the actual lead was very creative and good. Well, At least it turned out good. A spade now seems fine.

[Flameous]

lol, wrote a huge block of text to just realize my analysis was wrong retry:

I assume declarer holds 3721 or 2731, with more extreme shape I think we have even less chances though I haven't though them through.
In the second case we might have two diamond tricks to cash now or we could gift declarer if he holds DK.
The thing is that we are in no hurry to cash those diamonds as partner can ruff the club if declarer tries playing on them.
So we can just shift to a spade. We will get in with the heart and maybe partner's signals can help us figure out the position.

[BunnyGo]

Thanks for all the responses. I should have found the spade switch. I was worried that if I led a spade, he'd win the King in hand (or something), pull trump, and pitch diamonds on clubs. Oops.

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