PP 2nd Final Board 3

Consider just the West hand for a lead problem.


Board 3
Dlr S
Vul E-W

	♠ A K 8 6 4 2
	♥ 4 3
	♦ Q 9 6 3
	♣ K
♠ Q J 5 3		♠ 10 9 7
♥ A Q 7 5		♥ 10 8
♦ 8 2		♦ A J 10 7 4
♣ Q 7 5		♣ A 10 9
	♠
	♥ K J 9 6 2
	♦ K 5
	♣ J 8 6 4 3 2

Franco	North	Andy	South
			2♥
Pass	2♠	Pass	3♣
Pass	3♥	Pass	4♥
All Pass

Apparently 2♠ was forcing and South was unsure whether 3♥ was forcing.  What would you lead from the West hand?

I chose the ♥A, and then continued hearts.  I like this choice as it seems to safely kill any ruffs in dummy but I still rate to get my 2 natural tricks.  Sadly, with partner's spots we had 3 natural tricks. 

Declarer played a club next, partner winning the ace and then the ten.  Next trick was ♣9-J-Q.  Sadly, I now played a spade.  I was thinking declarer could have taken his spades earlier if it was important to him, but of course he couldn't.

+100 was worth 4.5/17, +150 would have been worth 12.  This was a big error.


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