Leads after Preempts by Matthias Huberschwiller

A: ♥2 - Since South has a weak hand, nearly all the opposing side's strength is in dummy. Therefore you need to make an active lead, to set up tricks. You should lead your fourth-best Heart.

Should you lead Clubs, declarer might use the Clubs in dummy to discard his losers.

Your result so far:

A: ♥2 - This time it is North, the dummy, who has made a pre-emptive bid. He has shown five Hearts and a weak hand.

Therefore you must not underlead an honor, since you might be leading into one of South's tenaces.

You'd better lead a trump. This will give nothing away and you can just wait for declarer's finesses to fail.

Your result so far:

A: ♥A - Your partner has Doubled. He must have defensive tricks and not many Hearts. You need to cash the ♥A before South can discard his losers in the suit. And maybe you'll be able to give your partner a ruff on the second round.

Your result so far:

A: ♦A - South has made a Gambling bid, showing a solid minor and nothing else.

You need to lead the Ace of Diamonds, to look at dummy and see where you tricks might come from.

If you lead a Spade and dummy goes down with the Ace-King of Spades and nothing in Hearts or Diamonds, declarer will make nine tricks when he could have gone down a lot.

Your result so far:

A: ♣J - You made a good pass after the take/out double. They will go down a lot.

You need to lead your Club sequence. There is no point in leading your singleton when you have three natural trump tricks.

Your result so far: