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#1 User is offline   gwnn 

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Posted 2010-June-20, 17:49

Your partner opens 1♠ in third. You show a mixed raise.

p-p-1S-x
3H-4D-p-4H
end.

Txxx
xxx
x
AQxxx

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Posted 2010-June-20, 17:58

I'd have avoided the problem by bidding 4♠ over the double, though not if partner often opens a four-card suit in third.

I'd lead a spade. A diamond could ruin partner's holding, and there's not that much chance that he has a red-suit ace.
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Posted 2010-June-20, 18:48

I'd lead my singleton.

 wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


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Posted 2010-June-20, 20:23

My singleton. Partner might have the diamond ace, if not maybe the heart king and declarer decides to not finesse the heart or maybe declarer needs to win it in his hand and can't get to dummy to finesse the heart without giving us control. I try and not think about these situations too much and just do what the natural thing feels like. Although I have a feeling I need to lead to partner's ♠AKxx so he can switch to his singleton club...
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Posted 2010-June-20, 20:57

gnasher, on Jun 20 2010, 06:58 PM, said:

I'd have avoided the problem by bidding 4♠ over the double, though not if partner often opens a four-card suit in third.

I'd lead a spade.  A diamond could ruin partner's holding, and there's not that much chance that he has a red-suit ace.

Agree with the sentence about bidding 4♠.

I would always lead a diamond, although I can see gnasher's case for leading a spade instead.

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It occurs to me that some of the more earnest posters in the laws forums (probably I have been reading too many threads there!) would be keen to interpret a comment like 'not much chance that he has a red suit ace' as fielding a psych - at least in the not unlikely event that partner has opened light in third seat - instead of a valid bridge judgment. Am I wrong in thinking that there are people who think this way, or could an opponent summon a director to demand an adjustment if partner is very weak and we make the only lead of the spade to defeat the contract?
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Posted 2010-June-20, 21:20

I think partner has a red ace more often than we can beat this without a diamond ruff - ♠ AK (both cashing) and a club through.

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Posted 2010-June-20, 21:21

655321, on Jun 21 2010, 02:57 PM, said:

[Hijack, sorry gwnn!]
It occurs to me that some of the more earnest posters in the laws forums (probably I have been reading too many threads there!) would be keen to interpret a comment like 'not much chance that he has a red suit ace' as fielding a psych - at least in the not unlikely event that partner has opened light in third seat - instead of a valid bridge judgment. Am I wrong in thinking that there are people who think this way, or could an opponent summon a director to demand an adjustment if partner is very weak and we make the only lead of the spade to defeat the contract?
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Very interesting thought.
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Posted 2010-June-22, 16:18

diamond was the right lead, spade gives it away, they have two spade discards. This was from the USBC. other table in 4Sx-1
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Posted 2010-June-23, 00:27

confess I would have led a spade, hoping for 1-2 tricks there and some clubs.
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