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 Opening Leads with no suit mentioned by Linda J Green

When no suit has been mentioned in a No Trump contract we have not got many clues as to what to lead. Firstly, we add up our High Card points to declarer's and dummy's HCP and calculate whether partner has anything at all!.
If we have not much in high card points we need to find our partner with something instead, by leading short suits.

Question 1

  Your Hand
♠ A Q 7 4
♥ Q J 9 8
♦ 7 4
♣ 6 5 3 		 
Q: 1 - What do you lead when responder invited opener to game?
SouthWestNorthEast
---1NT
Pass2NTPass3NT
PassPassPass


 Your choice:
A: Q♥ - As there was no inquiry for a 4-card major we must lead a major. It is safer to lead the Q♥ which will not give a trick away as opposed to giving a trick from an Ace and Q♠.

Your result so far:
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Question 2

  Your Hand
♠ A 6 5 4
♥ 9 4
♦ Q J 9 4 3
♣ 7 6 		 
Q: 2 - What do you lead against 1 NT?
SouthWestNorthEast
---1 NT
PassPassPass


 Your choice:
A: Q♦ - We lead top of a broken sequence. When one card is missing ( the ten) it is considered a full sequence . We lead from our longest suit . The A♠ is an entry for when we can develop tricks in the long diamond suit.

Your result so far:
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Question 3

  Your Hand
♠ Q 8 7 2
♥ A 9 6 3
♦ J 3 2
♣ 9 8 		 
Q: 3 - What do you lead from a choice of 2 suits in equal length?
SouthWestNorthEast
---1NT
Pass3NTPassPass
Pass


 Your choice:
A: 2♠ - When we have a choice of two suits to lead, we usually choose the one without the Ace as it becomes our entry to run a long suit.

Your result so far:
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Question 4

  Your Hand
♠ Q 8 7 3
♥ A 4 3 2
♦ 9 8
♣ 7 6 5 		 
Q: 4 - What do you lead with no suit mentioned ?
SouthWestNorthEast
---2NT
Pass3NTPassPass
Pass


 Your choice:
A: 9♦ - We lead top of nothing! When there is no 5-card suit with which to set up, we lead passive against a strong 2NT opening on our right. We do not want to give them extra tricks and double guess what to lead.

Your result so far:
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Question 5

  Your Hand
♠ 10 8 6 4 3
♥ 7 4
♦ Q J 6
♣ J 3 2 		 
Q: 5 - What do you lead against a No Trump contract when no suits have been mentioned?
SouthWestNorthEast
---1 NT
Pass3 NTPassPass
Pass


 Your choice:
A: 7♥ - When we have very few high card points, we lead our short suit to try to find partner's long suit. If we lead a spade, christmas will come before we set up a topless suit with no entries!!

Your result so far:
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