This month we continue our investigation into the lead of a 5.

HAL is at hole 83 and has skunk possibilities over the dealer at hole 55.

HAL kept: and discarded and led 5S after the starter .

Having a 5 myself, seeing only a single 10-card anywhere, and knowing HAL was playing offense to improve his chances of a skunk win, I paired his 5, thinking that it was the "common" 5 lead holding three 10-cards.

After the game, analyzing this hand via CARDS-QUERY revealed that 3 5 5 7, not the double-run, is best for getting a skunk win.   Both the OPTIMAL and OFFENSE lead is a 5.   Only when playing DEFENSE should the 3 be led.

You can replay this game in its entirety by entering MODE-CUSTOM setting scores at 0* 0 (HAL is first dealer), and initial seed numbers 6038.20886.4783

The SEED numbers for this hand six deals later were 25432.28634.25170.

Click to download TG2OCT5.LOG and use WORDPAD to view the summary log of the entire game.

TG2OCT5.LOG was converted from a "Halsware OEM Font" into a standard Windows "Terminal Font" by the DOS utility, OEM2TERM

Sept 15