[Free]

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Your lead? Do you think it's an obvious lead?

[nullve]

5♠ didn't set up a force (did it?), so I'll assume partner was doubling 6♥ on general values. But then Opener's excuse for bidding 4N (likely with a spade void, hoping Responder's key cards to be elsewhere) must have been that he liked 4♣, which means he probably doesn't have the ♣K. So I'll lead the ♣4, expecting to get a diamond ruff unless dummy is void in clubs.

[Jinksy]

Doesn't seem at all obvious to me. What nullve said is along the lines of what I was thinking, but I doubt I'd have the guts to lead a small club at the table. I'd prob just cash the ace and hope the bad diamond split inconvenienced them. I wouldn't be surprised if a trump lead was necessary to stop them getting a full crossruff.

I can't make sense of P's double, though. We've advertised 0 defensive tricks, in actual fact holding probably one, and the opps have bid slam semi-freely. Unless they've just massively overbid, and we're probably setting them on any lead (though most likely a trump), the possibilities seem to be that the opps have 13 diamonds between them (so why didn't west fit-jump?), or that P with something like 0256 psyched a 4♠ bid, and E, with something like xxx(x) or Axx(x) of spades placed his partner with a second shortage and consequently overreached. Again there it seems likely to go off on almost any lead.

I think I've talked myself into leading a trump. If it lets the slam through, I'm going to blame partner's bidding.

[gnasher]

Without the double I'd have underled my ace, but I'm certainly not doing that now.

A black-suit lead seems right, so that partner doesn't have to guess what's cashing when he gets in with a red-suit trick.

I'd lead ♠Q. If partner happens to win that, I hope he'll give me a diamond ruff. If declarer ruffs it, partner will certainly work out that I want a ruff, so if he has ♥A I should get my extra trick. If declarer wins the ace, it may or may not be obvious to partner which minor to play when he gets in, but at least he won't try to cash a spade.

I don't think it's obvious what to lead.

[nige1]

Free, on 2015-November-29, 02:44, said:

Your lead? Do you think it's an obvious lead?

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I rank
0. ♦ Partner might be asking for a ♦ lead. I don't have any so...
1. ♠Q. Agree with Gnasher,
2. ♥8. Might thwart complete cross-ruff.
3. ♣A. But dummy's splinter might be a void.
4. ♣4. Might surprise declarer when his ♣K wins

[Fluffy]

Do we have info on pass of 5♠?

I would lead ♣A, partner will make another trick somewhere.

[wank]

i'd lead a spade for the same reasons as gnasher. why try to cash a club? it seems very unlikely that's going anywhere if dummy has a singleton, but if dummy has a void it could be rather damaging.