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- From: altus@leland.Stanford.EDU (Steve Altus)
- Subject: Re: Problems from Portland
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.000442.9127@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <lgil69INNgo3@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Nov17.213628.11446@leland.Stanford.EDU> <32651@olympus.wustl.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 00:04:42 GMT
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- In article <32651@olympus.wustl.edu> geppo@dworkin.wustl.edu (Giuseppe Bianchi) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Nov17.213628.11446@leland.Stanford.EDU> altus@leland.Stanford.EDU (Steve Altus) writes:
- >>More than one person has written something to the effect of:
- >>>>> 1. None vul. East dealer. You are West: AJ9542, T, Q7, AT32
- >>>>>
- >>>I would have opened 2S and avoided much of this mess.
- >>>
- >>
- >>you people are all either the worst bunch of result merchants i've
- >>ever seen or the worst bunch of bidders i've ever seen. hell, the
- >>ACBL Club Series tells people who haven't played a hand in their
- >>life to open this hand ONE spade! i mean, if you want to play in
- >>2S cold for six clubs, i suppose that's your right...
- >
- >Those are the observation of one of the worst bidder you've (n)ever seen
- >(I don't say result merchant because results are not known in this
- >hand. Of course if you give me also the results, maybe I'd open this
- >hand 4S...)
-
- thank you.
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- FIRST... i apologize, i didn't see you were in third seat.
- i now agree that 2S is reasonable, and would probably actually
- open three or four myself.
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- >
- >
- >2) The ACBL Club series tells to open 1H with Kx, AQJTx, QTx, KJx.
- > What does Steve Altus do with this hand? I don't think he follows
- > the Club series rules ... or, as usual, am I wrong?
- >
-
- for the record, the ACBL Club series opens this hand 1NT. is it
- right or wrong? i dunno. here i think opinions are quite valid
- for more than one call.
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- --the worst bidder you've ever seen
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