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Can you resist?
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Posted 2013-January-13, 17:40
Matchpoints.
Become yourself.
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Posted 2013-January-13, 17:43
make ♥K the jack and I would still double.
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Posted 2013-January-13, 21:25
Fluffy are you just being sexist by not doubling if it was the queen? 
On the original problem, I can not resist!
On the original problem, I can not resist!
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Posted 2013-January-13, 21:41
Dbl
"I think maybe so and so was caught cheating but maybe I don't have the names right". Sure, and I think maybe your mother .... Oh yeah, that was someone else maybe. -- kenberg
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Posted 2013-January-13, 22:27
Yes - I can resist the urge to pass.
Dbl, please.
Dbl, please.
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Posted 2013-January-14, 01:02
OMG ! a topic that everyone agrees in BBF, maybe it is true that 2013 will be the end of the world !!
Someone please resist doubling and save the world !
Someone please resist doubling and save the world !
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Posted 2013-January-15, 15:32
Partner bid 3NT once I doubled, he had about 13 points
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Posted 2013-January-15, 15:55
Lord Molyb, on 2013-January-15, 15:32, said:
Partner bid 3NT once I doubled, he had about 13 points
Sometimes you give him an awkward decision, but it's still right to double.
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Posted 2013-January-15, 16:07
Sounds like it should have had play, at least. Your post makes it sound like you ended up in a totally ridiculous spot...
"I think maybe so and so was caught cheating but maybe I don't have the names right". Sure, and I think maybe your mother .... Oh yeah, that was someone else maybe. -- kenberg
"...we live off being battle-scarred veterans who manage to hate our opponents slightly more than we hate each other.” -- Hamman, re: Wolff
"...we live off being battle-scarred veterans who manage to hate our opponents slightly more than we hate each other.” -- Hamman, re: Wolff
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Posted 2013-January-15, 16:24
23 hcp with prime honors and great spot cards after they have preempted sounds like a very good 3N. We can shut out the preemptor and set up our other suits most of the time.
Of course, who cares since partner sometimes passes, or bids hearts, or bids spades, or bids clubs, or bids game in a suit, all of which rate to be very good for our side.
Of course, who cares since partner sometimes passes, or bids hearts, or bids spades, or bids clubs, or bids game in a suit, all of which rate to be very good for our side.
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Posted 2013-January-15, 18:27
Lord Molyb, on 2013-January-15, 15:32, said:
Partner bid 3NT once I doubled, he had about 13 points
Assuming that 3N was a bad result, and that he didn't misplay it, this still proves nothing.
Double was clear, but very few things in life are risk free and I know of even fewer calls at the bridge table that are assured of success every time. Get over it or quit the game
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Posted 2013-January-15, 20:23
Do not know the vulnerabilty and partner's ♦ holding but perhaps he shud have resisted 3NT and passed the double? 
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Posted 2013-January-16, 07:37
Did the preempter have 7 to the K and an ace or something with partner having ♦QJx ? it does sound like 3N should have had at least some play.
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Posted 2013-January-17, 04:33
No, sorry, I can't resist the temptation to quote Oscar Wilde since no-one has done so yet:
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I can resist anything but temptation
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Posted 2013-January-17, 10:21
WTP here? Looks like an obvious balancing double of a 3♦ preempt.
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Posted 2013-January-21, 13:01
Easy Dbl, I don't even care what the result is, I know that it's the right action.
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