Leading When You Have Bid by Matthias Huberschwiller

In this quiz, you will have taken a bid during the auction, but have ended up on lead.

Take your opponents' bidding into account when choosing your lead.

Good luck.

Question 1

Your Hand
♠ A Q 7 5 2
♥ 9 4 2
♦ Q 8 3
♣ K 6

Q: 1 - What do you lead as South?

South	West	North	East
-	-	-	1♣
1♠	Double	Pass	1 NT
Pass	3 NT	Pass	Pass
Pass

A: ♠5 - Even though they have a Spade stopper, you need to lead a Spade. Your best shot at defeating 3 NT is to set up length tricks in your suit.

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Question 2

Your Hand
♠ 2
♥ A J 10 8 2
♦ A J 10 8 2
♣ 8 3

Q: 2 - What do you lead as South?

South	West	North	East
-	-	-	1 NT
2♥	Double	Pass	2 NT
Pass	3 NT	Pass	Pass
Pass

A: ♦J - They are expecting a Heart lead. Lead a Diamond to surprise them. Maybe your partner will have something to help.

Lead the top of touching cards with a broken sequence.

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Question 3

Your Hand
♠ 8 5 3
♥ A Q 10 5
♦ K 10 8 2
♣ A J

Q: 3 - What do you lead as South?

South	West	North	East
-	-	-	1♣
Double	1♥	Pass	1♠
Pass	3♠	Pass	Pass
Pass

A: ♠3 - Declarer might want to ruff Hearts in his hand and Clubs in the dummy.

Lead a trump. It's quite safe, and might prevent declarer from taking too many ruffs.

Your result so far:

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Question 4

Your Hand
♠ 8 3
♥ K Q J 10 9 6 5
♦ 8
♣ 9 6 4

Q: 4 - What do you lead as South?

South	West	North	East
-	-	-	1♠
3♥	3♠	Pass	4♠
Pass	Pass	Pass

A: ♦8 - Even with such good Hearts, it's best to lead your singleton Diamond, to try and make a ruff before declarer can draw your trumps.

Your result so far:

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Question 5

Your Hand
♠ K J 8 6 2
♥ A Q
♦ 9 7 6 5 3
♣ 9

Q: 5 - What do you lead as South?

South	West	North	East
-	-	-	1♥
1♠	2♥	Pass	4♥
Pass	Pass	Pass

A: ♦7 - You don't want to lead your singleton. With A-Q doubleton in Hearts, you don't want to take ruffs.

Underleading a King would be too dangerous. Lead passively, choosing your second-best Diamond to show that you don't have an honor in the suit.

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