cr|264|cb|2255|cg|2255|cr|1255|cb|164|cg|1255|cr|364|cb|364|cg|3255|cr|4255|cb|464|cg|464|cr|5255|cb|5255|cg|5255|bg|5|bt||mn|Dont lead away from a TENACE AQ's  or KJ's  etc|cs|3|at|

 




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              A Tenace is a broken sequence of honour cards such as|cs|3|at|


            { AQ54  or KJ54  or AJ8

             or Q106}|cs|2|at|





              {This again I call "The free gifts department"  and more often will be helping 
               declarer more than the defending side}|pg||nt|let us look at the above where we, as West, decide to lead from our KJ holding|st||wt|w|md|CAQ3,CKJ2,C65,Ct9874|wt|w|pc|c2|pc|c5,c7,cq|pg||nt|declarer has got away with blue murder winning the trick with his Queen|pg||declarer has got away with blue murder winning the trick with his QueIf we are patient and we don't touch this suit then when declarer tries playing it he will lose a trick to our KIngntnt|with the Ace still to come|pg||nt|As you can see if we lead the King we are no better off|md|CAQ3,CKJ2,C65,Ct9874|pc|ck,c5,c4,ca|pg||nt|declarer makes two tricks  UGH|pg||nt|now let us see what happens if we are patient and don't touch the suit|md|CAQ3,CKJ2,C65,Ct9874|pg||nt|Eventually you will make your King when declarer takes a losing finesse|pg||pgntntbt||nt|

         so when you have these tenace holdings 
         What do you do ?|cs|4|at|



                      {avoid them like the plague}|cs|3|at|





         {Lead from a different suit, an allowable suit}|cs|2|at|



                        {Lead :-

                        1. Top of sequence
                        2. Singleton
                        3. Top of Doubleton
                        4. Top of Nothing  or MUD if that is your 
                                 preferred method}||Declarer will sooner or later take a losing Club finesse and you will make your King||Whne delarer plasy this suit he will take a losing club finesse and we will win our king EVENTUALLY

and declarer will not make two tricks||||As you can see if we lead the king we are no better off||pg||pg||nt|You will be no better off if you start with the King|md|CAQ3,CKJ2,C65,Ct9874|pg||bt||nt|



                So what do you do when you holdings in suits like this ????|cs|4|at|


      {You find a different suit to lead that conforms to the allowable leads     

ie}|cs|2|at|



             {top of a sequence
             top of a Doubleton
            a singleton
            Top of Nothing or MUD (if thats your preferred method)}|