Think about what it means if you reverse this normal theme and lead the KING (partner will not know you have the ACE yet), but then you lead the ACE to trick 2. Assume you have agreed to lead Ace from AK. And you have decided your own priorities for signals to partner's opening lead (read reply #2 if you haven't).īefore we leave trick one, let's look at a few other signals available to you at trick one. you have now decided on your spot card and honor sequence leads. unusual signals at trick and what they mean, and when if you normall give "attitude" at trick one, the signal might be one of the other two. Decide what you like here, and get your partner to agree to it. having an agreement (even perhaps an inferior agreement) is better than no agreement at all. I will tell you something that you will hear many, many times. first trick signals.What does our opening leads show (honors? spot cards?), and what is our preference of spot cards as third hand ("attitude? suit preference? count?). Attitude-count-suit preference seems like a good order to me, but I play with partners who have a different preference, and that is ok too. Discuss with your partner the preference for signals at trick one. In other words, if you first choice is attitude, playing a low card to discourage in this suit can not also mean switch to specific different suit, or that you have an "odd" number of cards in this suit. The spot card you play has to be one or the other of these three. Note a signal can not serve all three purposes. The three most popular choices are to give either a "count signal", an "attitude signal", or a "suit preference signal." Generally, you need to agree with your partner the prefernce for such signals. But what if partner leads a high honor or dummy plays a high honor, what choices are there for you? Ok, we have discussed the opening lead, what about as 3rd hand to the first trick? Of course if you have to try to win the trick, you do so. Later, when you are ready, you can switch to the other methods. Other choice for leads are a mixture of 3rd/5th best or 2nd/4th best, as well as "attitude" leads, where the lower the card lead, the more the leader "likes the suit." I recommend at first, beginners stick with 4th best and learn the rule of 11. Also, top of nothing could be confused for a doubleton (less likely to be confusing if you have 4 or more than if you have 3 card suit).
I personally am not fond of top of nothing, but that is just me. Fourth best provides lots of information through use of rule of 11 and starts partner off on the right road to counting out the hand. but declerer can do the same with partner's hand. If you lead top of nothing, your partner can work out what high cards declarer has in the suit. What this means is they will lead the fourth highest card when they have some useful card in the suit or they will lead their highest spot card when they lack honors in the suit they lead.Įach of these convey information to parnter (AND DECLEARER).
Many, many people lead either "fourth best" or "top of nothing". There are a number of useful (and not so useful) agreements. Sadly, we often lack a suitable honor sequence when on defense, so we will have to lead something else.
What this means is they will lead the A when they have AK, and if they lead the JACK, they deny having the AK o rQ. IF you lead the King to due you promise the ACE or deny it? If you lead the Jack will you have higher cards or does it deny it? You will frequenty see or hear people say. You have to agree with your partner what an honor lead means. As opening leader, you have several ways you can give your partner a clue to your holding. So let's start with the very first opportunity you have to signal, trick one. Hi, giving your partner legal signals by the cards you play is an important part of the defense.
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