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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: Which inference is better, WAS - "finesse or play for the drop"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.221321.8800@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:13:21 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.175850.18797@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Nov17.175850.18797@cbnewsi.cb.att.com> reha@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (reha.gur) writes:
- ...
- >
- >Easley also analyzed lots of computer and hand dealt deals and
- >his conclusions are worth paying attention to. He concluded that you should
- >play for the finesse on hand dealt hands when you have no other information and
- >that on computer dealt hands you should do whatever was right. This is from
- >the the book "Expert Bridge" by Milt Steinberg(sp?).
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- The analysis so far assumes that the phrase "the finesse" is well-defined.
- Usually, you hold both the jack and the ten, so there is a two-way finesse.
- Now, you have to first decide whether to play for the drop, and if not,
- then you have to decide which way to finesse.
-
- What do the experts say about this?
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