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Pull or Sit?

Poll: Sit or Pull? (29 member(s) have cast votes)

Sit or Pull?

  1. Pull (4 votes [13.79%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.79%

  2. Sit because I'm barred by the break in tempo (7 votes [24.14%])

    Percentage of vote: 24.14%

  3. Sit with or without the break in tempo (18 votes [62.07%])

    Percentage of vote: 62.07%

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#21 User is offline   helene_t 

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Posted 2007-October-31, 03:48

Tx Jon, it's cool that you post a hand where you made the wrong decision :rolleyes:

Btw, I would have opened p's hand and I consider myself a conservative opener.
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Posted 2007-October-31, 04:10

Jonottawa, what I'm going to say isn't popular in this forum but I'll say it anyway. Players have the responsibility to try and do what they think it's best for their side. That includes overruling partner's decisions, if there's evidence he's making a mistake.

If pard is about to blunder and I know that, I should do something about it, instead of letting him go ahead with his mistake. Sure, letting him do it might win you the post-mortem, but that's not where battles are won.
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Posted 2007-October-31, 04:19

whereagles, on Oct 31 2007, 12:10 PM, said:

Players have the responsibility to try and do what they think it's best for their side. That includes overruling partner's decisions, if there's evidence he's making a mistake.

Fair enough. FWIW I have explicitly agreed with one p that we never field each other's misbids and bad judgements (or psyches for that matter). But that is something to discuss with p. I can imagine the agreement that we never field each other's mistakes during mostly-for-the-practice games but that we do during serious competition. In particular, I think said partner "should" field my misdefenses.
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Posted 2007-October-31, 08:48

Good hand and objective analysis.

There's hope for you yet Jon.

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Posted 2007-October-31, 11:24

I'd sit for this one.
Partner can't count on more than one trick at most from me.
Being a passed hand he shouldn't double this without very nice trumps and something more. Btw, we can't expect to do too well in 4♠ on this sequence anyway, probably 2-3 down, so even if 4♦x might make that won't hurt us too badly here.
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