[mike777]

Both White - #1



1C* - 2H – 3D – P

3N - P - P - DBL

All pass



*18+ or weak NT or 15+ and clubs



Your lead and why?



53

KQT652

J

8765





RED vs White - #2



(3D) - ?



AQ432

KT8

KQ4

65

[Codo]

1. upon agreement: This could be: Lead the unbid major, your shortest major, always spades, always your suit, something unusual, never your suit.
I would try a spade opposite an unknown partner.

2. I may be in a minority, but I just pass. I would double 3 ♣ but not 3 ♦. My diamonds are so good that partner is likely to reopen if we have enough for game. Sometimes this does not work, I can live with that.

[JLOGIC]

1: spade obv?

2: 3N

Sorry about my answer on one, I just don't see how it could be anything but a spade. It's not a heart and a club seems weird (plus I have 4 of them), and diamonds is their suit. Partner had no chance to bid spades, it's likely he has KQJTx and the DA or something.

[quiddity]

JLOGIC, on 2012-November-19, 16:28, said:

1: spade obv?

2: 3N

Sorry about my answer on one, I just don't see how it could be anything but a spade. It's not a heart and a club seems weird (plus I have 4 of them), and diamonds is their suit. Partner had no chance to bid spades, it's likely he has KQJTx and the DA or something.

I know that sometimes this sort of a double asks for dummy's suit. Is there a good guideline as to when it should ask for dummy's suit, when it should ask for my suit, when it should ask for partner's suit (if he shows one), and when it should ask for the unbid suit?

Or do you not have any conventional agreements about this kind of double - it just means "if you pick the right suit we can beat it" and you just take your best guess?

[silvr bull]

On the first hand, I lead a low ♥ (to partner's hoped for ♥Ax or ♥Jxx), because:

quiddity, on 2012-November-19, 16:39, said:

I know that sometimes this sort of a double asks for dummy's suit. Is there a good guideline as to when it should ask for dummy's suit, when it should ask for my suit, when it should ask for partner's suit (if he shows one), and when it should ask for the unbid suit?

My understanding of the lead directing double against NT (as best I remember it from decades ago ) is:
A) If I bid a suit, lead MY suit.
B) If I did not bid, but you did, then lead YOUR suit.
C) If neither of us bid, then lead the FIRST suit bid by dummy. Without the double, I expect you to lead the 2nd suit dummy bid unless you have something much better to lead.
D) If no suits were bid, then " - it just means "if you pick the right suit we can beat it" and you just take your best guess?"

I also pass on the second hand, and hope partner (who is not yet a passed hand) can reopen the bidding. It seems too dangerous to step on the tracks in front of a possible locomotive on my left.