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...is definitely NOT this.
http://tinyurl.com/p84uymw
Particularly trick 3. Unfortunately, after this blunder, I did not find the squeeze in the pointy suits.
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Posted 2014-November-07, 07:22
Become yourself.
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Posted 2014-November-07, 22:34
How can you complain about the defence when you bid 3nt on this? Look to the bidding first.
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Posted 2014-November-07, 22:43
the hog, on 2014-November-07, 22:34, said:
How can you complain about the defence when you bid 3nt on this?
Umm ... because the latter does not excuse the former?
Psych (pron. saik): A gross and deliberate misstatement of honour strength and/or suit length. Expressly permitted under Law 73E but forbidden contrary to that law by Acol club tourneys.
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2000 years earlier: "morituri te salutant"
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Psyche (pron. sahy-kee): The human soul, spirit or mind (derived, personification thereof, beloved of Eros, Greek myth).
Masterminding (pron. m
str-mnding) tr. v. - Any bid made by bridge player with which partner disagrees."Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts." 9th battalion, King's own Yorkshire light infantry,
2000 years earlier: "morituri te salutant"
"I will be with you, whatever". Blair to Bush, precursor to invasion of Iraq
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Posted 2014-November-08, 03:39
1eyedjack, on 2014-November-07, 22:43, said:
Umm ... because the latter does not excuse the former?
No, but this is a classic case of pot-kettle, as are so many GIB posts.
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Posted 2014-November-08, 05:19
the hog, on 2014-November-08, 03:39, said:
No, but this is a classic case of pot-kettle, as are so many GIB posts.
It depends what you think is the motivation for the post. They are not seeking sympathy (nor praise when it works), but a better GIB.
As with "so many GIB posts", if they only posted hands where the human behaved sensibly, then exposure of some of GIB's glaring errors would be unnecessarily delayed.
There are a lot of GIB posts where GIB behaves logically based on mistaken belief in a partner who has departed from spec, and such posts are rightly criticised (which criticism invariably flows on a case by case basis). I don't see this thread as such an example.
If you think that, by substituting for South a "genuine" hand consistent with his 3N bid, the defensive action is reasonable, then I am open to convincing.
Psych (pron. saik): A gross and deliberate misstatement of honour strength and/or suit length. Expressly permitted under Law 73E but forbidden contrary to that law by Acol club tourneys.
Psyche (pron. sahy-kee): The human soul, spirit or mind (derived, personification thereof, beloved of Eros, Greek myth).
Masterminding (pron. mstr-mnding) tr. v. - Any bid made by bridge player with which partner disagrees.
"Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts." 9th battalion, King's own Yorkshire light infantry,
2000 years earlier: "morituri te salutant"
"I will be with you, whatever". Blair to Bush, precursor to invasion of Iraq
Psyche (pron. sahy-kee): The human soul, spirit or mind (derived, personification thereof, beloved of Eros, Greek myth).
Masterminding (pron. m
str-mnding) tr. v. - Any bid made by bridge player with which partner disagrees."Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts." 9th battalion, King's own Yorkshire light infantry,
2000 years earlier: "morituri te salutant"
"I will be with you, whatever". Blair to Bush, precursor to invasion of Iraq
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Posted 2014-November-08, 05:28
the hog is as polite as ever, but he has a point. 3NT shows 16+ HCP, so both robots placed you on a different hand, each giving you some of their partner's HCP. So GIB W saw you're going to make anyway and played randomly to trick 3.
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Posted 2014-November-08, 10:36
forget trick 3 just another example of Gib playing a random card that could cost.
Look at trick 1, why isn't Gib leading a sequence K♣ from KQJ? to beat contract all you need is declarer to have Ax♣ and partner to have an entry and 3+♣
and for opp not to have 9 top tricks.
Look at trick 1, why isn't Gib leading a sequence K♣ from KQJ? to beat contract all you need is declarer to have Ax♣ and partner to have an entry and 3+♣
and for opp not to have 9 top tricks.
Sarcasm is a state of mind
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