[mike777]

Overheard comments in a top class KO event.

1) Our teammates were hopeless on half the boards.
2) His "topclass partner" is a madman.

Assume these are wc calibar players. At least one of the hopeless has won an open WC teamevent and was not a sponsor, just how hopeless or mad can these guys be?

Please decipher expert speak.

[helene_t]

Everything is relative. If you expect your teammates to recognize every time a chinese three-suit crizz-crozz throw-in stepingstone suicide pseduosqueeze is the percentage play and they miss it once, you'll get disapointed.

[foo]

helene_t, on Jun 25 2007, 01:35 PM, said:

...a chinese three-suit crizz-crozz throw-in stepingstone suicide pseduosqueeze...

I almost want to invent this just so I could see what it would look like...

[bid_em_up]

mike777, on Jun 25 2007, 01:29 PM, said:

Overheard comments in a top class KO event.

1) Our teammates were hopeless on half the boards.
2) His "topclass partner" is a madman.

Assuming these are wc calibar players. At least one of the hopeless has won an open WC teamevent and was not a sponsor, just how hopeless or mad can these guys be?

Please decipher expert speak.

1) "Our teammates were hopeless on half the boards."

What it really means:

"We royally screwed up the other half."

2) "His "topclass partner" is a madman."

What it really means:

"I wish our opponents were not smart enough to double him when he bids like an idiot."

[bhall]

You know, there's a chance that they mean exactly what they say.

1. Examine the Butlers for the two Round Robins at the USBF team trials. You will see, for instance, that Passel-Wold scored -0.858 IMPs per board against the entire field in RR1 (the average being 0). They came in 56th out of 64 pairs.

2. Examine the hand records, and find Welland overcalling 2♣ for majors over a 15-17 NT and a passed partner, holding Axx xxx Jxxxx xx with neither side vulnerable.

Of course, we're all human, and we love to complain about our teammates, so a fair amount of exaggeration is to be expected. But the brutal truth is that sometimes the best will play badly, and some of the most successful players ARE madmen.

[Al_U_Card]

1- They couldn't save us from our mistakes on the boards that we pooched.

2- Their "crazy" bids worked like a charm because we didn't field them.


It's all about ego and saving face...