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 Leads after a two-suiter has been announced by Matthias Huberschwiller

Your opponent has shown a two-suited hand and it is your lead.

Often, knowing at least nine cards in his hand will give you some hints to know what to lead, notably to imagine the game plan that declarer might use.

It is your lead!


Question 1

  Your Hand
 K J 8 3
 8 6 2
 9 4
 J 6 3 2
 
Q: 1 - What do you lead as West?
SouthWestNorthEast
1Pass2Pass
2Pass4Pass
PassPass


 Your choice:
A: 3 – Dummy has shown length in clubs, so declarer is likely to plan discarding his losing spades on dummy’s clubs.

In order to try preventing this plan, you need to lead your fourth best in spades, hoping you’ll be able to get spade tricks before declarer has the time to discard them.


Your result so far:
Open Question

Question 2

  Your Hand
 9 8
 K 3 2
 J 9 8
 Q 5 4 3 2
 
Q: 2 - What do you lead as East?
SouthWestNorthEast
--1Pass
1Pass2Pass
2 *Pass2 NTPass
3 NTPassPassPass


2 - Fourth suit forcing

 Your choice:
A: 9 – No lead looks good. You could think of leading a heart to lead the fourth suit, but North has indicated having interest there and your partner did not double hearts.

When it comes to your long suit, clubs, the absence of middle cards makes it impossible to establish tricks there given that South has shown four clubs.

When you look at the bidding, you know that North has five diamonds, four clubs and a heart stopper, so he is likely to have only a singleton spade (or maximum a doubleton).

So, even if dummy has five spades, your partner is sitting behind it with five spades also. Therefore, you need to lead the 9, playing through dummy.


Your result so far:
Open Question

Question 3

  Your Hand
 A Q 10 8
 Q J 10
 Q 6 3 2
 8 2
 
Q: 3 - What do you lead as West?
SouthWestNorthEast
1Pass1 NTPass
2PassPassPass


 Your choice:
A: 2 - You could think of leading the queen of hearts, but you first need to think about declarer’s game plan.

What will he do? Dummy has shown a weak hand, short in spades, with some diamonds. Declarer will try ruffing his spade losers in the short hand.

The best way of preventing this is to lead a diamond, despite the fourth queen, to limit the number of ruffs.


Your result so far:
Open Question

Question 4

  Your Hand
 A J 5 2
 K Q 10 6 2
 6
 Q 10 3
 
Q: 4 - What do you lead as West?
SouthWestNorthEast
-12 NT *Pass
3PassPassPass


2 NT - Unusual 2 NT - Shows 5-5 in the minors

 Your choice:
A: K – Dummy has shown a 5-5. Leading your singleton into dummy’s diamonds, when you have good chances to get a natural trump trick anyway, bears the risk of capturing an honour in partner’s hand.

It is safer to lead from your sequence in hearts. If declarer needs to ruff diamonds you’ll have your trumps to over-ruff.


Your result so far:
Open Question

Question 5

  Your Hand
 A J 10 8
 7 2
 Q 6 3 2
 J 6 2
 
Q: 5 - What do you lead as West?
SouthWestNorthEast
1 NTPass2Pass
2Pass3Pass
3Pass3 NTPass
PassPass


 Your choice:
A: J – As North has shown a two-suiter with hearts and clubs, leading these two suits is excluded.

South has shown some strength in spades: it is probable that he has king-queen. Leading the jack will kick out an honour and if your partner gets on lead he will be able to lead through the spade honour that is left.


Your result so far:
Open Question

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