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2/1 Game Force Alerts In EBU

#41 User is offline   phil_20686 

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Posted 2012-January-31, 06:24

View Postgordontd, on 2011-December-15, 07:33, said:

It's the card that's proscribed, not the methods.


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Posted 2012-January-31, 06:25

View Postphil_20686, on 2012-January-31, 06:24, said:

No the card is prescribed. Encrypted leads are proscribed. One means recommended, the other means forbidden.

I suggest you look again, and consider which card was being talked about. Start with post 8 and you might get an idea of the full conversation.
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Posted 2012-February-01, 22:29

View PostStatto, on 2012-January-31, 02:39, said:

And to hell with announcements B-)

Just to qualify that point: bidding boxes were I think introduced to prevent UI from inflexions in the way the bids were stated, or the hardness of the knock on the table for an alert. Announcements seem to reintroduce the possibility of dodgy UI, and go against the reason for bidding boxes. If there were a set of cards in the bidding box for the various possible announcements (along with the alert card), that would be fine, but there aren't.
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Posted 2012-February-02, 03:53

View PostStatto, on 2012-February-01, 22:29, said:

If there were a set of cards in the bidding box for the various possible announcements (along with the alert card), that would be fine, but there aren't.


You mean like

16-18
15-17
15-18
14-16
14(+)-17
14-17(-)
13-15
12-15
11(+)-15
12-14
11-14
11-13
10-12

etc.?
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Posted 2012-February-02, 04:01

View PostStatto, on 2012-February-01, 22:29, said:

Just to qualify that point: bidding boxes were I think introduced to prevent UI from inflexions in the way the bids were stated, or the hardness of the knock on the table for an alert. Announcements seem to reintroduce the possibility of dodgy UI, and go against the reason for bidding boxes. If there were a set of cards in the bidding box for the various possible announcements (along with the alert card), that would be fine, but there aren't.


Do you find that there is a lot of UI transmitted through announcements? I find that they are neutral, and for the most part have to do with really basic parts of the bidding system -- things that are unlikely to have been forgotten. There are exceptions, though, like variable NT, but a card with the range would not be an improvement.
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