IF West had led a D, and IF you had found trump had broken badly on the second round (4-1), it would be dangerous to continue drawing trump. Do you switch plans and begin setting up the Hearts? You are in the South hand - how should you continue? Alternatively you might try running 3 rounds of Clubs to sluff your Diamond loser, hoping Clubs split 4-3.
West didn’t have a sequence and couldn’t ‘under-lead’ his ♥Ace/Queen, so a trump lead is ok, because that is one way of reducing ruffs in Dummy. Here it didn’t really help, as trumps split 4:4 - but had trumps split 5:3, then the two small trumps in Dummy could have got an additional trick or two, in which case leading a trump would reduce one ruff in Dummy - i.e. one trick at least for Declarer (provided he could ruff in Dummy - which wasn't the case here.) But, leads are blind, so there was no way West could know the trump distribution or get any other information.
Very nice. Thank you.
Enjoyed that. Very typical dilemma so thanks for showing the way through, Jack.
Great tutor
Thanks Jack! Very clear
Thanks - very useful Jack!
Thanks a lot for showing this!!!
IF West had led a D, and IF you had found trump had broken badly on the second round (4-1), it would be dangerous to continue drawing trump. Do you switch plans and begin setting up the Hearts? You are in the South hand - how should you continue? Alternatively you might try running 3 rounds of Clubs to sluff your Diamond loser, hoping Clubs split 4-3.
what if they led a dia?
Thank you Jack and Bajir, what software was used to play the hand please? Thank you.
This looks like FunBridge
Thanks very much
Very enjoyable lesson.The cards were a little hard to read.
I had to watch it on full screen, then it was okay.
Why would opponents lead spades (Trump)?
West didn’t have a sequence and couldn’t ‘under-lead’ his ♥Ace/Queen, so a trump lead is ok, because that is one way of reducing ruffs in Dummy. Here it didn’t really help, as trumps split 4:4 - but had trumps split 5:3, then the two small trumps in Dummy could have got an additional trick or two, in which case leading a trump would reduce one ruff in Dummy - i.e. one trick at least for Declarer (provided he could ruff in Dummy - which wasn't the case here.) But, leads are blind, so there was no way West could know the trump distribution or get any other information.