[blml] Lead Problem

[Konrad Ciborowski]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "raija" <mustikka at charter.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] Lead Problem


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stefanie Rohan" <daisy_duck at btopenworld.com>
> To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 9:47 PM
> Subject: [blml] Lead Problem
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>
>> Favourable at pairs, you pick up:
>>
>> Q86
>> K5
>> KQ842
>> 1062
>>
>> You pass, and LHO, playing ACOL with 4-card majors and weak NT, opens 1C.
>> Partner bids 2H, weak.  RHO bids 3NT, and you find yourself on lead. 
>> What
>> do you lead, and how strongly do you feel about it?
>>
>> (Please restrict your answer to your systemic leads, which are S6, HK, DQ
>> and C6).
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Stefanie Rohan
>
>
> Hearts is the suit declarer has stopped (or double stopped, more likely)
> 100% of the time.  Partner doesn't have entries and I have only two 
> hearts,
> therefore leading hearts is close to curling up dead and conceding,
> particularly if the overcall is in modern style/less restricted, favorable
> at pairs.  Small diamond.

Have you seen that it is pairs? So your #1 aim should be not to beat
the contract (a chance that, though possible, looks pretty small on the 
bidding)
but to avoid blowing a trick?
Small diamond can strike gold sometimes but most of the time
it will give a free overtrick to declarer.

Konrad Ciborowski
Kraków, Poland 


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