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#1 User is offline   MickyB 

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Posted 2007-December-24, 04:25

Scoring: IMP

/ 1N
2♦:2♥
3NT:4♥
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Playing standard (4th/2nd) leads, what's your choice?

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Posted 2007-December-24, 11:52

Would not seriously consider any lead besides a spade.
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Posted 2007-December-24, 11:52

Doesn't that make a spade even more obvious than when opener passed 3NT?
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Posted 2007-December-24, 12:23

Okay, I considered it to be fairly close between the black suits, so went for the bulletin!

The conditions seem right for an ace-underlead - both declarer and dummy are balanced and there's nothing else particularly attractive to lead.

Why would a club be so bad?

Part of the reason for leading a spade against NT is that the club ace might be the entry to cash your long spade. That's not an issue against a suit contract :) So I don't think it's necessarily true that the club lead is less attractive against a suit contract than against NT.
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Posted 2007-December-24, 12:27

MickyB, on Dec 24 2007, 01:23 PM, said:

The conditions seem right for an ace-underlead - both declarer and dummy are balanced and there's nothing else particularly attractive to lead.

I thought the conditions involved

- The strength being mostly on our left, not our right as here.
- Defensive chances looking much more hopeless than on this hand, where we have a lot of possibilities.
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Posted 2007-December-24, 13:14

If you talked yourself into underleading an ace into the 1N opener I think you overthought this one. When the strength is on our right this just blows a trick way too often. Not to mention declarer is going to play you for all the red suit queens after you make this lead.
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Posted 2007-December-24, 14:27

MickyB, on Dec 24 2007, 07:23 PM, said:

Okay, I considered it to be fairly close between the black suits, so went for the bulletin!

There's more than one way to make the bulletin :rolleyes:
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