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- From: sgm@sgfb.ssd.ray.com (Steven G. Myerson)
- Subject: Re: This actually happened to me...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.181645.13960@rayssd.ssd.ray.com>
- Sender: news@rayssd.ssd.ray.com (Administrator)
- Organization: Raytheon Submarine Signal Division
- References: <1992Dec20.154523.14051@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec22.020913.12047@speedy.aero.org> <1992Dec24.160422.13642@sco.COM>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:16:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.160422.13642@sco.COM> paul@sco.COM (Paul Jackson) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.020913.12047@speedy.aero.org> martino@courier6.aero.org(Nick Martino) writes:
- >>> Partner had 3 spades and 5 (bad) hearts. How is he to know when to
- >>> rescue himself?
- >>
- >>Any time one of your competent opponents passes a takeout double at the
- >>one-level, you know you're up against a real stack. Therefore, if you can
- >>envision another place to play, it's probably right to initiate rescue
- >>operations.
- >
- >Now, if I have a real second suit or an atrocious first suit I might well
- >attempt to rescue myself, but with most hands that opened a 5 card major
- >without a side suit I'll just sit and take my lumps.
-
- My partner and I play 4-card majors, and I can remember once when
- he opened 1S, my RHO doubled, I passed with 1-4-4-4 and about 3 HCP,
- and my LHO, holding the other eight spades, left it in.
- Oh yeah - that was a bottom.
-
- Steve Myerson (sgm@sgfb.ssd.ray.com)
-