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- From: kibler@turing.ICS.UCI.EDU (Dennis Kibler)
- Subject: Re: Reopening decision
- Message-ID: <9211161347.aa27259@Paris.ics.uci.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 21:49:29 GMT
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- In rec.games.bridge you write:
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- >You hold:
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- > T7 J86 AT843 984
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- >in a Board-a-Match game, red vs white, RHO is dealer.
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- >Auction goes:
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- >RHO Partner LHO You
- >P 1S 3H P
- >P D P ???
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- This will be fun as I have just read Cohen's book on the Law of Total
- Tricks (To Bid or not to Bid). Criticisms of my reasoning and
- application of the LAW (as Cohen is fond of saying), are welcomed.
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- Partner has a good hand (15+) and no more than 6 spades.
- So we have 7-8 spades. LHO has 6-7 hearts and his partner
- probably has 2, giving them 8-9 hearts. So I estimate the
- number of total tricks to be 16 maybe 17. If we can make 4 spades,
- they will be down 3-4. If we can make 3 spades, they are down
- 2-3. If we can make 2 spades, they are down 1-2. Hmnn, ---
- Makes it easy no? I pass like a shot.
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- Well has the LAW made this an easy problem?
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- dennis
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