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- From: bpwing@phoenix.princeton.edu (Ben Wing)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: Reopening decision
- Message-ID: <48628@apadravya.princeton.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 09:43:24 GMT
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- In article <9211161347.aa27259@Paris.ics.uci.edu> kibler@turing.ICS.UCI.EDU (Dennis Kibler) writes:
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- |In rec.games.bridge you write:
- |
- |
- |>You hold:
- |
- |> T7 J86 AT843 984
- |
- |>in a Board-a-Match game, red vs white, RHO is dealer.
- |
- |>Auction goes:
- |
- |>RHO Partner LHO You
- |>P 1S 3H P
- |>P D P ???
- |
- |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.
- |
- |
- | 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.
- |
- |Well has the LAW made this an easy problem?
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- Note that 3Hx down 3 is not a good score vs. 4S making, at this vulnerability.
- 3Hx down 1 vs. 3S making is not a good score either. I think I would just
- bid 3S at this vulnerability. Maybe pass at other vuls, but too many
- possible disasters as it is.
-
- ben
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- "Can't we all just get along?"
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