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#1 User is offline   PhantomSac 

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Posted 2015-February-06, 21:39

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w/w imps. You open 1H and the auction goes

1H (2C) 4H (4S)
5H (5S) AP

You don't play precision but your partner likes to bid 4H a lot in these spots. RHO's 4S bid was in tempo (waited ~10 seconds), your LHO was pretty happy to bid 5S given the normal tempo in this kind of auction (maybe 5 seconds).

Your lead?
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Posted 2015-February-06, 21:46

obvious small diamond.....most heroic lead imaginable. LHO is 4=0=3=6 and rho 6=2=4=1 Partner has KQxxx Kx in the reds.

ATT, don't think I am brave/crazy enough to do this, but I like it.
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Posted 2015-February-07, 09:47

Small heart.
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Posted 2015-February-07, 12:24

small club just to complete the set like
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Posted 2015-February-07, 13:49

Lol I was actually curious what people thought the right lead was
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Posted 2015-February-07, 14:43

well in real life i'd lead ace of heart lol
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Posted 2015-February-07, 14:50

I would lead ♦A. This lets us cash two red suit winners pretty much whenever possible, and still preserves most of the chances to cash three.
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Posted 2015-February-07, 14:52

View PostPhantomSac, on 2015-February-07, 13:49, said:

Lol I was actually curious what people thought the right lead was


To be honest, I don't see anything that strongly suggests me to make some genius lead here. All i know is we pushed them to 5 level, I have 2 defensive tricks and pd may produce one or not. I am not as brave or heroic to do something that will make one of my winners go bye bye. I am aware ♥ A may not be a trick and aces tend to be ruffed at 5 level contract, but I also seen a lot of 5 level pushed contracts go down w/o doing something very special.
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Posted 2015-February-07, 17:11

♥A seems normal. It's going to be hard to beat this contract if we don't have a heart trick.
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Posted 2015-February-07, 19:59

View Postgnasher, on 2015-February-07, 17:11, said:

♥A seems normal. It's going to be hard to beat this contract if we don't have a heart trick.


I agree with the second part, I was thinking of maybe a low heart in case partner has the DQ and RHO has the king. Obviously it requires a parlay, but it also does not cost that often; I'm not sure what the odds of losing to their stiff king (when we could have beaten it otherwise) is.

If we changed our diamonds to the AQ I think underleading the heart is a stand out. Obviously that's a different hand and requires much less of a parlay, but I thought the theme might be similar here.

I thought the tempo suggested 4126 in dummy to be somewhat likely (or a heart void in which case underleading will be better than leading the ace).
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Posted 2015-February-08, 23:24

I assume that by a low you meant a middle spot, since the lowest H could be seen as club void ?
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Posted 2015-February-08, 23:41

View Postbenlessard, on 2015-February-08, 23:24, said:

I assume that by a low you meant a middle spot, since the lowest H could be seen as club void ?


Ya I led the highest non jack heart. I think it should be suit preference when you underlead in this kind of spot. For what it's worth no lead was beating it.
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