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Your Hand
♠ Q J 6 3
♥ 9 7 6
♦ 10 8 4 3
♣ 10 9 |
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Q: 3 - You are South.
South | West | North | East |
- | - | - | 1♥ |
Pass | 3♥ | Pass | 4NT |
Pass | 5♥ | Pass | 7♥ |
Pass | Pass | Pass | |
Grand slams can happen, and it's a good idea to know what type of leads are best against such contracts! The opponents bid their way to 7
♥ via a limit raise followed by a Blackwood sequence where West's 5
♥ response showed two Aces.
What do you lead?
A: ♥6.
There may be no lead that would defeat the contract - after all, the opponents might just have 15 top tricks!
However, in the scenarios where declarer cannot be 100% sure of his contract, then we best make sure that we do not make a lead that would give anything away. We only need to give away one trick and that will mean the difference between the grand slam going one down or making!
Since the trump suit is the one place where the opponents do not need help in, a passive trump against a grand slam is the best idea. It gives nothing away and forces declarer to do his own work if his contract is not cold.
You might think the ♠Q or the ♣10 are passive leads too here - no, quite the contrary. For instance, the ♠Q lead may expose you to a finesse if dummy has ♠K 10 3 opposite declarer's ♠A 7 2. A ♣10 lead may expose partner's ♣Q for declarer to take a free finesse.
Your result so far: