[helene_t]

whereagles, on Oct 6 2005, 12:08 PM, said:

TheoKole, on Oct 6 2005, 08:09 AM, said:

Always trust your partner, not the opponents!

Corollary: if the deck seems to have 50 points, trust OPPS, not pard

Provided that partner is more likely to psych or err than both opps combined. This may not be the case.

Blofeld said:

For one thing, if it works, you're fielding partner's bid.

If the opps tell you that partner psyched then you are allowed to use that information. Of course you should pre-alert that partner is a frequent psycher so that opps have the chance of making the same inference.

But I saw a good one on someone's profile recently: "Psyches rare, errors frequent". So if there are 50 points in the deck, someone erred, and unless you care more for the short-term results than for your partnership, that someone can never be partner.

[Fluffy]

If you are playing on the main bridge club online, and you are declaring, jsut claim when you know what is gonna happen, remember tehre is a partner sitting in front who is boring. I remember once claiming 7 tricks playing 1 NT (very few of them were top trricks), BEFORE my opponent could lead . The faster you claim, the more you play.

[dogsbreath]

hi
I am deeply concerned by the advent of high tech equipment into the game. electric shock dog-collars particularly worries me as i frequently fall asleep while dummy.

rgds Dog

[Double !]

dogsbreath, on Oct 7 2005, 07:53 PM, said:

hi
I am deeply concerned by the advent of high tech equipment into the game. electric shock dog-collars particularly worries me as i frequently fall asleep while dummy.

rgds Dog

not to worry,
Un-named sources have leaked the information that someone will ring a bell first each time before delivering any shocks (which are purported to be relatively mild). I have not yet received clear permission to reveal the identity of this source.