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 Leads with trump length by Matthias Huberschwiller

Your opponents have bid a suit contract and you have length in trumps.

How will this influence your lead?

It is your lead!


Question 1

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


 Your choice:
A: J – With certain trump tricks, leading your singleton will not be very useful. You must, on the contrary, try to establish tricks from your long suit and lead from your sequence in diamonds.

Your result so far:
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Question 2

  Your Hand
 A 4 3 2
 9
 Q J 9 6 2
 6 5 3
 
Q: 2 - What do you lead as West?
SouthWestNorthEast
1Pass2Pass
PassPass


 Your choice:
A: 9 – Like in question 1, you have again four trumps, but your only trump trick is the ace. In addition, you have a rather weak hand so there are good chances that you can get your partner on lead so that he can let you ruff some Hearts.

Your result so far:
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Question 3

  Your Hand
 7 2
 A Q 9 8
 J 10 9
 K 10 6 2
 
Q: 3 - What do you lead as West?
SouthWestNorthEast
1Pass1 NTPass
2PassPassPass


 Your choice:
A: 2 – What will declarer’s plan be?

Most likely, dummy has shortness in Hearts and a small Club fit. Declarer will ruff his Heart losers in the short hand.

You need to try to prevent him from doing so by leading a trump. If your partner has an honour, you can quickly draw dummy’s trumps and even if your partner has nothing there, you can start taking away potential ruffs.


Your result so far:
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Question 4

  Your Hand
 K 9 4 2
 K J 10 3
 6 2
 Q 3 2
 
Q: 4 - What do you lead as West?
SouthWestNorthEast
1Pass2Pass
2Pass4Pass
PassPass


 Your choice:
A: 2 – With solid length in trumps, you need to try to force declarer to ruff, in order to end up with more trumps than him. We also say you want to shorten declarer’s trumps.

Therefore you need to lead a Spade, from the suit where you have some values, and try to establish your length.


Your result so far:
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Question 5

  Your Hand
 J 10 9 8
 9 2
 A J 9 2
 9 6 2
 
Q: 5 - What do you lead as West?
SouthWestNorthEast
1Pass1Pass
1Pass3Pass
4PassPassPass


 Your choice:
A: J – You have diamonds behind South and chances are that your partner has something in Hearts behind North.

Declarer is likely to plan a crossruff, so you need to lead a trump to limit the number of ruffs that he can get.


Your result so far:
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