[nige1]

Scottish National League (IMPs and VPs)
You lead ♣K ♣2 ♣5 (low = Encouraging) ♣J
At trick 2 what do you lead?

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[paulg]

nige1, on 2018-October-30, 07:48, said:

Scottish National League
You lead ♣K ♣2 ♣5 (low = Encouraging) ♣J
At trick 2 what do you lead?

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Are you really playing attitude signals when there is a singleton in dummy? In my world this would be a suit preference situation, so a low club asks for diamonds and a high club asks for spades and a middle club is encouraging for clubs or neutral.

So I switch to the king of diamonds.

[nige1]

paulg, on 2018-October-30, 08:24, said:

Are you really playing attitude signals when there is a singleton in dummy?

A low ♣ is encouraging. A high ♣ would ask for a switch.

[paulg]

nige1, on 2018-October-30, 08:45, said:

A low ♣ is encouraging. A high ♣ would ask for a switch.

I guess I would continue with a club then with these agreements as a high club would ask for a diamond.

[Tramticket]

Partner rates to have a trick for the double. There is just room for partner to have an ace and if it is the A♦ you might need to lead King and another diamond, before declarer discards diamond(s) on the top spade. But this will look pretty silly if partner has the trump ace instead! A spade only looks right if partner is ruffing and a trump might find partner with QXX and declarer about to play for the drop.

I'm continuing clubs.

[HardVector]

It looks like clubs are 1-1, and declarer doesn't have a spade fit. So declarer is at least 5-5 in the reds. It looks like partner is asking for a diamond back, so I'm going to play the ten in case it's 5-7 in the reds and partner has the singleton A. I don't know if it's imps or mps, though. mps, I might go for the extra trick with the K.

[gszes]

spade 3 it may seem like picking nits to choose the 3 vs the 2 BUT the 3 just might look like shortness to declarer and give them a false impression on the distribution of the hand. I would avoid the spade Q as our spots will all too easily allow declarer to set up spades with 1 loser if they need to. If partner has the dia A the low club is a horrific choice at trick 1 so a dia lead is out an leading a trump might be doing declarers work for them. At least a spade is doing something declarer might have to do themselves.

[mikeh]

I should have led a spade. I don’t like the methods. But if partner has 5 clubs, he wasn’t doubling expecting us to be cashing even one club trick and then scoring 2 side tricks. I think he has a spade void and couldn’t risk a high club because he can’t stand a diamond switch. How’s void xxx Axxxx Qxxxx for the 5C bid, giving South 109x AKQJxx xxx J.

South would be bidding 5 as a 2-way shot.

[nige1]

Scottish National League (IMPs and VPs)
You lead ♣K ♣2 ♣5 (low = Encouraging) ♣J
At trick 2 what do you lead?
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The full deal is on the left
PaulG and TramTicket found the winning defense of continuing ♣A.
I switched to a ♠. Declarer cashed ♠AK, throwing her other ♣.
Then she ran ♥T.
Partner covered the next ♥ but declarer won and
Led a small ♦ to force another dummy entry,

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[Cyberyeti]

You've been done partially by your system, if I knew partner had another club I would play like that, but too much risk of 1-1.