Opening leads, Vacant Places, and covering an honour with an honour?

This looks at a hand from last week's game and covers Board 14 www.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bw...
• Choosing an Opening Lead
• Taking advantage of the opponents opening lead
• Deductions from the bidding: Eight Ever, Nine Never?
• Declarer play: Counting your losers
• 2nd Hand Play - Cover an Honour with an Honour?

[@nogisomee]

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[@johnworf]

Yes Tony is a really good bridge teacher - you might like my channel as well - I provide a full beginners course for free - 52 videos in total - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpCcommtpsp4rLc check out the description to cover topics you might be interested in :)

[@johnworf]

Here is a good example of covering an honour with an honour costing the defence taking me off in a small slam: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIPIi5yjrL6jmac

[@armantookmanian1938]

At 22:35 if East should know that South is now void in Spades - he started with 2, West's 3S preempt showed 7, and Dummy had 3, so South started with only 1, which was played under Dummy's A on trick one. Therefore he needs to lead a Club, hoping West has the A so as to finesse South for the K. This prevents South sluffing a club loser from Dummy on his 5th Diamond. Declarer still makes his contract but is denied the overtrick.

[@armantookmanian1938]

At approximately the 9:00 minute mark, as Declarer, I would expect West to lead K from KQxxxxx of Spades. If he doesn't, I'd assume East very likely has one of those honors, and therefore West has to have hcps elsewhere to justify bidding his preempt. Adding the HQ or the DJ (or even CQJx) to such a weak S holding still wouldn't be enough for most players to enter the auction, even being non-vul. So I'd be guessing West has CA, and play East's vacancies for the missing red suit honors (drawing the trump first, of course).

[@johnworf]

a lot of people will open 3 spades with kxxxxxx, xx, xx, xx non-vulnerable. so they might not have any more values. Here is my lesson on pre-empts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJK7qWeLfM90p6M

[@guyredares]

5S is not the 4th highest

[@TonyStawBridgeClass]

Yes, I presume they meant to lead 4th highest, but made a mistake!