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 Leads with trump length by Matthias Huberschwiller

You are on lead and you have length in the trump suit.
What should you do?

Lead a trump? Try to shorten declarer's trumps? Try to ruff?

It's your lead!

Question 1

  Your Hand
 7
 Q 10 9 7
 J 10 9 8
 10 6 3 2
 
Q: 1 - What do you lead as West?
SouthWestNorthEast
1Pass2Pass
4PassPassPass


 Your choice:
A: J - It is no good to lead your singleton Spade, you'd ruff with your natural trump tricks!
You need to lead the top of your sequence in Diamonds.

Your result so far:
Open Question

Question 2

  Your Hand
 A Q 9 8
 Q J 3
 J 8
 Q 8 6 2
 
Q: 2 - What do you lead as West?
SouthWestNorthEast
1Pass1NTPass
2PassPassPass


 Your choice:
A: 2 - When declarer has shown a two-suiter and dummy didn't show support, he often has a singleton in the first suit and a mediocre fit in the second.
Therefore, a trump lead will often be a good way to prevent declarer from ruffing his first suit in dummy, and is therefore a good lead even when you have the Queen.

Your result so far:
Open Question

Question 3

  Your Hand
 9 6 3 2
 7 4
 J 6 2
 10 6 4 2
 
Q: 3 - What do you lead as West?
SouthWestNorthEast
1Pass2NT *Pass
4PassPassPass


2NT = Spade support, 13-15

 Your choice:
A: 7 - Your trumps will not be a strong force against declarer.
With a weak hand, it is a good thing to lead from your short suits, hoping to be able to ruff.
Here, the doubleton Heart is your best chance to get a trump trick - as a ruff or over-ruff.

Your result so far:
Open Question

Question 4

  Your Hand
 K 10 9 8
 7
 K J 9 6 3
 8 6 2
 
Q: 4 - What do you lead as West?
SouthWestNorthEast
--1Pass
1Pass1NTPass
2 *Pass2Pass
4PassPassPass


2 = Do you have three Spades?.

 Your choice:
A: 6 - With two nearly certain trump tricks, leading a singleton in dummy's long suit won't be productive.
With a long and solid side suit in addition to your length in trumps, you need to think of a defense based on shortening declarer, this means force him to ruff until he has less trumps than you.
To do this, you need to lead aggressively like against No-trump: The fourth best of your long suit, Diamonds.

Your result so far:
Open Question

Question 5

  Your Hand
 K 4 3 2
 8 6 2
 7
 10 9 8 3 2
 
Q: 5 - What do you lead as West?
SouthWestNorthEast
--11
122Pass
4PassPassPass


 Your choice:
A: 7 - Here, you have only one trump trick, but you have several small trumps that could give some more tricks from ruffing.
Therefore, you need to lead your singleton Diamond, in spite of the suit bid by your partner.
The Heart suit will later be useful to cross to partner's hand so that he can give you diamond ruffs!

Your result so far:
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