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When to lead active

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Active leads are sometimes called for, one reasonably common scenario is where we know the opponents have a long side suit - so we might need to set up our tricks in a hurry. For example

Here we should try to get the sense that dummy will have a 5+ card diamond suit. Also with our hand we can see the diamond suit is probably breaking well and the finesse is on. We need to attack our trick source asap. The full hand

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