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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
- Subject: Re: This actually happened to me...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.071935.11975@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
- References: <1992Dec20.154523.14051@midway.uchicago.edu> <7215@tivoli.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:19:35 GMT
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- In article <7215@tivoli.UUCP> taylor@foraker.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Eric Taylor) writes:
- ...
- >The opponents were also probably a favorite to make 3NT.
- >If you were only -300 I would smile and be happy. :-)
-
- Alas, no. Pard has just enuf stuff to keep them from making anything.
- His hearts were Kxxxx, which meant that he had exactly one heart trick,
- but lots of misc trash outside.
-
- >If you bid 1S with the above hand, what are you going to do
- >when partner bids 2NT? That will probably be the last time you
- >play with that partner. If you feel you MUST bid with the above
- >hand, make a preemptive bid.
-
- In fact, we play Precision, so opener is limited.
-
- Playing standard, you are probably much worse off if partner does have a
- 2N rebid (i.e., lotsa points, but bad hearts). He could still go
- for 300 or so, but now clearly opps are making nothing.
-
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- I am master of my domain.
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- - pynq@quads.uchicago.edu, who is still costing the net
- hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, every time he posts -
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