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Opening lead #1

Poll: Opening lead #1 (22 member(s) have cast votes)

Lead?

  1. spade ace (1 votes [4.55%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.55%

  2. trump (12 votes [54.55%])

    Percentage of vote: 54.55%

  3. systemic diamond (9 votes [40.91%])

    Percentage of vote: 40.91%

  4. club king (yeah!) (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  5. small spade?? (lol) (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

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#1 User is offline   whereagles 

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Posted 2014-December-22, 04:37

Matchpoints, adv pard



Agricultural sequence, but that's how it went :)

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Posted 2014-December-22, 07:05

A limited auction at MPs? I can't see any reason not to look for the most passive lead - a ♦.
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Posted 2014-December-22, 22:03

On 1-2-3-4-all pass auctions I was once told lead a trump and if I don't have one borrow one from the next table.
(I think that's originally a quote from Rixi Markus but cannot remember the origin)
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Posted 2014-December-22, 22:22

A diamond for me, stay safe.
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Posted 2014-December-22, 23:02

I lead trump.
It would be less obvious for me if I had xx trumps. With xxx it's almost wtp for me.
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Posted 2014-December-23, 03:02

Trump
"The King of Hearts a broadsword bears, the Queen of Hearts a rose." W. H. Auden.
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Posted 2014-December-23, 11:54

was this a hand played by farmers?
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Posted 2014-December-23, 12:10

View Postbigbenvic, on 2014-December-22, 22:03, said:

On 1-2-3-4-all pass auctions I was once told lead a trump and if I don't have one borrow one from the next table.
(I think that's originally a quote from Rixi Markus but cannot remember the origin)


Liking for the quote, but I'm still leading a ♦ :P
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Posted 2014-December-24, 04:53

I tried a Bird/Anthias spade ace and met with this layout:


I got happy when pard encouraged, but dismayed in the end when it handed the contract Posted Image

In retrospect a passive diamond would probably be better, as RHO is the stronger hand.
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Posted 2014-December-24, 07:38

I seriously doubt Bird/Anthias would have advocated the AS on that auction. Even in their chapter on leading empty aces from medium length suits, they basically apologise for it, IIRC, and say 'this is the most double-dummyish part of the book'.
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Posted 2014-December-24, 09:56

it would certainly be close between spade ace and a diamond. Perhaps the spade 10 would swing it towards the diamond.
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Posted 2014-December-24, 10:24

I have fair chance of having a couple of entries and a trump lead
has a fair chance of cutting down on probable dummy ruffs. I realize
other leads can succeed and that a trump lead can easily give up a
tempo but they are all much more speculative than the attempt to
cut down ruffs.

There are two main reason why responder went to game--power (which makes
any side suit lead much more dangerous) or distribution (screaming for a trump
lead). That seems to mean a trump is safer than most side suit leads and quite
possibly can be more effective.
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