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Your Hand
♠ J 8 6 4
♥ 5
♦ 8 7 6 4 2
♣ 6 5 2 |
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Q: 3 - You are South.
South | West | North | East |
- | 1♣ | 1♥ | Double |
Pass | 2♣ | Pass | 3NT |
Pass | Pass | Pass | |
With this lovely collection of cards, you will have to find a lead. what do you choose?
A: ♥5.
Just because we have a terrible count doesn't mean we shouldn't give this hand much thought. In fact, because the opponents didn't search for a slam, we can deduce that partner should have a decent hand so we should try our best to cooperate with him on defense.
Leading a Diamond here is fair enough but it's not going to do us much good since even if we're able to set up our suit, we have no entries to get back to our hand.
The best thing to do here is to lead partner's suit. Yes, we do have a singleton Heart, but we know that partner has all of the potential entries in his hand so a Heart lead would be much more productive than any other lead.
Your result so far: