[Shugart23]

1) Using Journalist leads, what are the possible 3 card holdings your partner might have when you see him lead the Queen?

2) Using Journalist Leads, what are the possible 4 card holdings when you see him lead the Queen ?

[Gilithin]

Shugart23, on 2023-March-16, 07:47, said:

1) Using Journalist leads, what are the possible 3 card holdings your partner might have when you see him lead the Queen?

2) Using Journalist Leads, what are the possible 4 card holdings when you see him lead the Queen ?

1. You would lead the queen from any 3 card suit headed by the QJ. QJx is not generally that great of a lead against 3NT so you would likely have some reason from the auction for leading this suit. In addition, AQJ would lead the queen but this is even less appealing.
2. Typically you only lead the Q from a 4+ card suit when holding the J and a 3rd near-touching card, so AQJx, QJTx and QJ9x. You might additionally choose to lead the queen from QJxx if you had some special reason to think an honour was the right card. Finally, Journalist features a special case of leading the queen from a suit headed by KQT9. This is why the instructions for partner when signalling to a queen are "unblock the jack or give attitude".

[Shugart23]

thanks