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Just a lead
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Posted 2013-February-07, 16:18
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Posted 2013-February-07, 16:21
Jack of diamonds is automatic to me. Slave to the 4 card sequence I guess.
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Posted 2013-February-07, 16:50
I like a systemic low club. I feel like every time I don't lead from a high honor against this auction I lead into AKQ in dummy opposite declarer's stiff or void, and we have the heart entry to push a diamond through later. Would rather lead ♦J than a heart or the club K.
I once yelled at my partner for discarding the 'wrong' card when he was subjected to a squeeze that I allowed by giving the wrong count with too high a card. Now he's allowed to pitch aces when the opponents have the king in the dummy. At trick 2. When he could have followed suit. And blame me.
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Posted 2013-February-07, 17:01
dia J
with most of the opps power being with rho anything but a dia carries with it a huge risk of giving
away a badly needed trick to the opps. The dia J can cost but only if rho has AKQ and gets some
immediate pitches we could have won otherwise. Yes rho can hole AQ or KQ and a dia lead will be
non productive at best but there are many more holdings where the dia J wil be safe even if not
usually a huge producer of tricks. A low club with 5 clubs just seems like a play with a tiny chance
of success that carries the greatest risk of disaster. A small heart is probably similar but at least
it has a better chance of being a quick trick taker (maybe even setting an otherwise unbeatable
hand) with the heart A being less so and a fair amount less risk than a small heart).
If i had only 4 clubs vs 5 i think a low club would offer a much greater chance of trick taking
for the risk involved (similar to the heart A but better since it requires less from p to be
successful.
with most of the opps power being with rho anything but a dia carries with it a huge risk of giving
away a badly needed trick to the opps. The dia J can cost but only if rho has AKQ and gets some
immediate pitches we could have won otherwise. Yes rho can hole AQ or KQ and a dia lead will be
non productive at best but there are many more holdings where the dia J wil be safe even if not
usually a huge producer of tricks. A low club with 5 clubs just seems like a play with a tiny chance
of success that carries the greatest risk of disaster. A small heart is probably similar but at least
it has a better chance of being a quick trick taker (maybe even setting an otherwise unbeatable
hand) with the heart A being less so and a fair amount less risk than a small heart).
If i had only 4 clubs vs 5 i think a low club would offer a much greater chance of trick taking
for the risk involved (similar to the heart A but better since it requires less from p to be
successful.
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Posted 2013-February-07, 17:10
gszes, on 2013-February-07, 17:01, said:
with most of the opps power being with rho
You do realize that RHO opened a weak 3S white against red?
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Posted 2013-February-07, 17:32
My robot lead is the ♥A. Maybe its a MP tendency, or maybe I've seen ♦AKQx come down too often and declarer goes ♦, pitch, pitch as we seethe,
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