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More Opening Leads- Passive or Aggressive? ANSWERS

Continuing the theme from the last puzzle, try working out whether these auctions call for a passive or an aggressive lead.          (A passive lead would be from a suit such as J 10 8 5 or 10 9 6 3.  An aggressive lead would be from a suit such as K 10 9 4 2 or Q 8 7 3) 

Auction A: 

North East South West
1♣  pass 1  pass
3♣  pass 3  pass
4  ?

This is an auction which suggests an aggresive lead- Declarer will propose to draw trumps and use the known good ♣ suit to discard some or all of their losers. We need to grab our winners in ♠ and   while 

we can.

Auction B:

North  East South West
2♣  pass 2  pass
2NT pass 3NT all pass

This auction usually suggests a passive lead- most of the strength lies in one hand , and we want to avoid giving away an uneccessary trick, preferring for declarer to do all their own work/guessing. 

Auction C:

North East South West
1♠  pass 1NT pass
2  pass pass pass

It depends on your holding in spades, but this auction normally suggests specifically a trump lead. Most of declarer's extra tricks will be coming from ruffing spades in dummy, and we can reduce that number by leading a trump, even from a holding such as   K 5 3

10 points each for a correct answer- well done if you scored 30!

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