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Your Hand
♠ Q 4 2
♥ 10 9 2
♦ Q 6 2
♣ A Q 4 2 |
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Q: 5 - As West, what do you lead?
South | West | North | East |
1♠ | Pass | 4♣ * | Pass |
4♠ | Pass | Pass | Pass |
4
♣: Splinter, Four Spades and a singleton in Clubs.
A: ♥10 – North has made a splinter bid and declarer will most probably want to ruff Clubs in dummy.
Can you prevent this?
You could try to lead a trump, but as dummy has four of them, you won’t be able to draw them all.
If you lead a trump, you sacrifice your Queen, which will certainly take a trick if you don’t lead the suit.
Therefore, you need to lead a neutral card, the ♥10, and let declarer try to establish his tricks by himself.
Your result so far: