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Your Hand
♠ A Q J 2
♥ Q 10 8 5 3 2
♦ 3
♣ 7 4 |
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Q: 2 - You are South.
South | West | North | East |
- | - | - | 4♦ |
Pass | Pass | Pass | |
East opens a preemptive 4
♦ and you pass with all of your might. Surprisingly, this ends the auction. What do you lead?
A: ♠A.
This seems like a weird lead (as we don't have the support of the ♠K), but it is likely to be the best lead. First off, as declarer has opened a preemptive 4♦, it is unlikely that he has the ♠K. Therefore, our ♠A lead may set up the ♠K if it is in dummy, or we may be lucky and hit partner with that card.
The advantage about the ♠A lead is that we can't be sure which suit(s) our tricks are coming from, and by leading the ♠A, we get to take a look at dummy first. If partner encourages Spades, we can certainly continue the suit, and if partner discourages, we can take a look at dummy and see whether we should switch to a Heart or a Club.
Your result so far: