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A Hand From Last Night
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Posted 2012-June-01, 07:37
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Posted 2012-June-01, 07:55
4♦!
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Posted 2012-June-01, 08:54
double by now, I don't know if 3♠ over 3♥ its forcing but I hope so.
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Posted 2012-June-01, 09:31
Fluffy, on 2012-June-01, 08:54, said:
double by now, I don't know if 3♠ over 3♥ its forcing but I hope so.
When you don't know if 3♠ is forcing, my advice is to try another auction, and afterwards ask partner: if I had doubled and pulled 3♥ to 3♠, would that have been forcing?
Which is why I am bidding 4♦ and pulling 4♥ to 4♠. This is a stronger sequence than just jumping to 4♠, and my hand warrants that even tho my spade suit should/could be stronger.
Double, while takeout, is sometimes left in...picture Ax AKxxx Qxx xxx...with 4 likely tricks on defence, no fit for your suit, and nothing extra in hearts (where you have denied a primary fit via double) isn't this the time to take one's plus? Lest you say that that gives preempter nothing....he is w/r.
So I don't like double anyway. Or am I being too old-fashioned about this sequence? it wouldn't be the first time.
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Posted 2012-June-01, 10:06
I would take 3♠ as forcing - after I doubled.
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Posted 2012-June-01, 11:34
4♦ for me.
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Posted 2012-June-01, 11:41
When I said this was "A Hand From Last Night", I wasn't kidding. It came to me in a dream. I do that sometimes.
Here was the layout:
For some reason, I passed 3♦ (??!!) and somehow we beat it 3 tricks. At the time, I felt like I was dumping to this pair, but it turned out to be an average plus, as the room ended up in spades a lot of the time going set.
I need to stop eating before bed.
Here was the layout:
For some reason, I passed 3♦ (??!!) and somehow we beat it 3 tricks. At the time, I felt like I was dumping to this pair, but it turned out to be an average plus, as the room ended up in spades a lot of the time going set.
I need to stop eating before bed.
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Posted 2012-June-01, 11:50
Phil, on 2012-June-01, 11:41, said:
When I said this was "A Hand From Last Night", I wasn't kidding. It came to me in a dream. I do that sometimes.
Here was the layout:
For some reason, I passed 3♦ (??!!) and somehow we beat it 3 tricks. At the time, I felt like I was dumping to this pair, but it turned out to be an average plus, as the room ended up in spades a lot of the time going set.
I need to stop eating before bed.
Here was the layout:
For some reason, I passed 3♦ (??!!) and somehow we beat it 3 tricks. At the time, I felt like I was dumping to this pair, but it turned out to be an average plus, as the room ended up in spades a lot of the time going set.
I need to stop eating before bed.
If you can remember a hand with all the spots, both yours, your pd's and opponents hands, from a dream ! Including the field results... I think you have serious problems/skills and thats not eating before bed bro!
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"It's only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize there is always a way to solve problems without using violence!"
"Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without being condemning of one's view's and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say."
"It's only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize there is always a way to solve problems without using violence!"
"Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without being condemning of one's view's and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say."
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Posted 2012-June-01, 12:11
Spots are approximate. I also defend hands better in my dreams than I do IRL I see 
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Posted 2012-June-01, 17:11
hands in my dreams never have 13 cards each, or if they do somehow they get to a silly contract, like 7♦ off AKJ9x but after I lead I realice some stupid spot such as ♣3 is duplicated with dummy and the hand must be averaged.
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Posted 2012-June-01, 17:34
Fluffy, on 2012-June-01, 17:11, said:
hands in my dreams never have 13 cards each
this
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