[thorvald]

I have noticed it a couple of times, but this time I remembered to record it

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After trick 6 West is on lead and will have to lead a ♦

Actually it doesn't matter, but looking isolated on the suit it can't be right to lead the 9 from T9xx.

[johnu]

Good falsecard by West. How good? Well, it fooled East who is a well know GIB master, so a pretty good falsecard.

[steve2005]

why lead 7♦ at trick 2?
just giving partner a hard time

[smerriman]

If you swap the positions of the J and 9 so that West has JT643 left and East played 9 on a previous trick, it will never lead the T, despite being a 100% identical state from a play position. But here with T9643 and J played on a previous trick, if it decides to lead a high card, it will lead T and 9 equally as often. I guess its rules about when to lead high from equals during the middle of the hand only apply to honors.

[thorvald]

smerriman, on 2023-June-18, 17:27, said:

If you swap the positions of the J and 9 so that West has JT643 left and East played 9 on a previous trick, it will never lead the T, despite being a 100% identical state from a play position. But here with T9643 and J played on a previous trick, if it decides to lead a high card, it will lead T and 9 equally as often. I guess its rules about when to lead high from equals during the middle of the hand only apply to honors.

Just got another example today

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Again the 9 instead of the obvious 10