Leads after a preempt by Matthias Huberschwiller

A: ♦2 - Of course you won't lead a singleton trump, nor an unsupported Ace.

You have a choice between an aggressive lead from the King of Diamonds and a passive lead from your small Clubs.

The strength is in dummy, therefore it's best to lead actively, to try and set up tricks.

Even if they have a Diamond tenace it will probably be in dummy, so you won't be giving anything away.

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A: ♥J - You need to lead your long and strong suit, even though South will probably have strength there. The only way of defeating this is by setting up a long suit, and you're the one with the strong hand.

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A: ♠7 - Which suit do you want to set up? Hearts or Clubs?

Neither of them! You don't have any entries so you need to lead a Spade, trying to find partner's long suit since he has all of the defensive strength. South hasn't tried to find a Spade fit, so your partner rates to have four or five Spades.

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A: ♥A - Do you really want to lead your singleton, holding a singleton trump? Not really.

You need to lead the Ace of Hearts first, to get a look at the dummy and decide what to do next.

Even though you don't have the ♥K your lead isn't too dangerous, since if they have the King it will likely be in dummy.

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A: ♥A - When your opponent opens a Gambling 3 NT, showing a solid minor, you need to lead an Ace if you can.

As all the side-suit strength will be in dummy, you'll be able to tell exactly which suit to try and take tricks in.

If you lead the Queen of Spades, dummy might come down with the Ace-King of Spades and nothing else. Then they would make nine tricks when you had eight tricks to take in Hearts and Clubs.

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