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2H 6H
Opponents are young. 2nd or 3rd board out of the box. On the first they gave you +690 after a questionable decision, so they might be trying to get one back.
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Lead vs 6H
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Posted 2018-March-26, 01:42
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Posted 2018-March-26, 02:59
spade
"definitely that's what I like to play when I'm playing standard - I want to be able to bid diamonds because bidding good suits is important in bridge" - Meckstroth's opinion on weak 2 diamond
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Posted 2018-March-26, 10:27
eagles123, on 2018-March-26, 02:59, said:
spade
I agree. Passive leads rarely beat spontaneously bid slams.
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Posted 2018-March-26, 11:03
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Posted 2018-March-26, 11:48
I'm also in the ♠ lead camp.
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Posted 2018-March-26, 14:47
Assuming 2H was a weak 2, S for me too. Declarer is unlikely to hold a tenace in that suit, but maybe dummy so put at a guess at trick 1.
Maybe partner has Q and a trick somewhere.
Maybe partner has the A and we cash the first 2 tricks (just had the case last week-end against very strong opponents and a sequence almost as expeditive as this one).
Maybe (!) we need to set up tricks and it is the most promising suit I can see without asking my partner what he has in hand.
Maybe partner has Q and a trick somewhere.
Maybe partner has the A and we cash the first 2 tricks (just had the case last week-end against very strong opponents and a sequence almost as expeditive as this one).
Maybe (!) we need to set up tricks and it is the most promising suit I can see without asking my partner what he has in hand.
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Posted 2018-March-27, 00:02
I led a spade and I think its automatic. Teammate thought "there isn't a 'right' lead here". Spade was disastrous:
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Posted 2018-March-27, 01:10
Phil, on 2018-March-27, 00:02, said:
I led a spade and I think its automatic. Teammate thought "there isn't a 'right' lead here". Spade was disastrous:
"definitely that's what I like to play when I'm playing standard - I want to be able to bid diamonds because bidding good suits is important in bridge" - Meckstroth's opinion on weak 2 diamond
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Posted 2018-March-27, 07:30
Phil, on 2018-March-26, 01:42, said:
On the first they gave you +690 after a questionable decision, so they might be trying to get one back.
They were. They did. And it worked against me too.
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Posted 2018-March-27, 13:45
Phil, on 2018-March-27, 00:02, said:
I led a spade and I think its automatic. Teammate thought "there isn't a 'right' lead here". Spade was disastrous:
Unless you are a result-merchant, a ♠ lead is arguably best and certainly better than any other plain-suit lead..
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Posted 2018-March-27, 14:36
I said I'd lead a ♠, But when I averred that, I was thinking that with a fairly high spot, I'd consider long and hard about leading it rather than low from three. You know LHO opponent has the big hand, so the ♠ A is more likely to be in that hand. So the high spot might be more likely to make declarer believe partner has the ♠ K and disdain any working ♠ finesse.
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I rank
1. ♥2 Cut down ruffs and win the postmortem, Nothing adventurous in case opponents are just overbidding.
2. ♠2 In case the kids think it's a Swizz match (Benito Garozzo would approve). See previous thread where dummy has e,g,
♠ x x x ♥ A x x x ♦ A K T x x x ♣ -
3. ♦2 Dangerous.
4. ♣2 Dittto.