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Opening Lead Surely not my longest/strongest?

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Posted 2013-January-28, 11:57

 Vampyr, on 2013-January-26, 21:20, said:

Why? It was my first instinct.


I can't think of many situations that I would ever lead AQxx against 3N, especially with RHO likely to have the king. At best we set up one trick to have 3 heart tricks, and at worst we give them a trick they never had coming when partner could have gotten in and shifted to the suit effectively for 4 tricks. As mikeh said there is a big difference in AQxx and AQxxx where we are trying to set up 2 tricks to have 4 hearts + some other trick.
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Posted 2013-January-31, 19:47

 JLOGIC, on 2013-January-28, 11:57, said:

I can't think of many situations that I would ever lead AQxx against 3N, especially with RHO likely to have the king. At best we set up one trick to have 3 heart tricks, and at worst we give them a trick they never had coming when partner could have gotten in and shifted to the suit effectively for 4 tricks. As mikeh said there is a big difference in AQxx and AQxxx where we are trying to set up 2 tricks to have 4 hearts + some other trick.


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