MiniBridge Part 2 - Improving your game
MiniBridge Part 2 - Improving your game
Lesson 5 of 7.
Opening Leads
Key points:
- If we have a sequence of 3 cards headed by an honour we lead the top card of the sequence.
- Otherwise we lead from our longest suit:
- the 4th highest if the suit is headed by an honour card
- the 2nd highest if the suit has no honour card.
Scroll down to the next section for some quick questions on what we have just learned.
Question 1 of 3. #163
We need to make the opening lead against a contract of 9 tricks in No Trumps.
Our hand is
Which card should we lead?
Question 2 of 3. #162
We need to make the opening lead against a contract of 9 tricks in No Trumps.
Our hand is
Which card should we lead?
Question 3 of 3. #161
We need to make the opening lead against a contract of 9 tricks in No Trumps.
Our hand is
Which card should we lead?
Key points:
- If we have a sequence of 2 cards headed by an honour we lead the top of the sequence (eg king from KQ73).
- We lead a low card from a suit headed by a single honour or non-touching honours. We lead 4th highest card or lowest from three cards.
- We never make an opening lead against a suit contract from a suit which contains the Ace without the King (but it's OK in No Trumps).
- We can lead a singleton hoping that partner can win and give us a ruff. Best when we have a weak hand so partner is likely to have some high cards.
- We can lead the higher card from a small doubleton.
- We can lead 2nd highest from a suit with no honour and typically play the highest at the next opportunity. With a 3 card suit this is known as Middle Up Down (MUD).
- By having a standard system of leads it helps give partner clues on the whereabouts of the missing cards in the suit led.
Scroll down to the next section for some quick questions on what we have just learned.
Question 1 of 2. #185
We need to make the opening lead against a contract of 10 tricks in hearts.
Our hand is
Which card should we lead?
Question 2 of 2. #186
We need to make the opening lead against 10 tricks in spades.
Our hand is
Which card should we lead?
