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Your Hand
♠ K 7 2
♥ 6 5 4
♦ 10 9 8 5 2
♣ 4 2 |
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Q: 3 - You are South.
South | West | North | East |
- | - | 1♠ | 2♣ |
Pass | 3♣ | Pass | 3NT |
Pass | Pass | Pass | |
It is you to lead against 3NT on the given auction above. What's your choice?
A: ♠2.
We are clearly leading partner's suit as anything else would be a huge risk to take. We don't care if East has a stopper, our goal is to establish partner's Spades.
The question is, do we lead the ♠K or the ♠2?
You may think partner might be more delighted to see the King rather than the 2, but the fact is, the King from Kxx may ruin the suit entirely. Just because we are leading partner's suit doesn't make our rules different, so with Kxx, we lead our lowest card. If we had ♠Kx doubleton, THEN we would lead the ♠K.
For example, if the Spade suit was distributed like such:
♠8 5
♠ K 7 2 ♠ A J 10 6 3
♠ Q 9 4
The lead of the ♠2 will pick up declarer's ♠Q in no time, but the lead of the ♠K will give declarer a Spade trick.
Your result so far: