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Is the trump lead necessary

#1 User is offline   cyc0002002 

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Posted 2009-May-21, 09:50

Is the trump lead necessary ?
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Posted 2009-May-21, 12:41

On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being "necessary" and 10 being "totally insane" I'd give a trump lead about a 9.4. Just my opinion.
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Posted 2009-May-21, 12:58

I guess we expect dummy to have 2♥ and 3♦. I don't really see our winners being ruffed in dummy, so no, it doesn't look necessary to my n00bish eyes.
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Posted 2009-May-21, 17:36

Dummy has 1 heart and 3 diamonds and hearts split 3-4 and you have the heart ace, so seems good. If you don't lead a diamond they can ruff 2 of them and just lose 2 hearts (assuming you will lead a trump when in with a heart) and still lose any trump tricks you are worried about. anyway p could have the jack or the q or something in trumps. If you don't lead a trump when in with heart youll make sure of your trump trick but he will set his hearts up and win them all but 1. this seemslogical doesn't it? We know dummy has 1 or no hearts or else the polite bid after 2D is 2H
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Posted 2009-May-22, 02:15

Hi,

you want to go passive, and the most passive lead you have is
a spade.

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