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double, save, sacrifice?

#21 User is offline   whereagles 

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Posted 2009-April-03, 14:13

hey, I'm actually a very disciplined, scientific player. If you bother to play with me one day, you'll see that personally.

My masterminding doesn't go any further than what most of us do when playing a weaker player whose weaknesses we know well (never balances when he should, never gets a lead right, screws up when declaring, etc.). The only difference is I'm not too scrupulous about it. I do it mostly because the people I use to play with occasionaly reveal suicidal tendencies. I feel I have the moral obligation save both of us from him B)
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Posted 2009-April-03, 14:20

whereagles, on Apr 3 2009, 03:13 PM, said:

hey, I'm actually a very disciplined, scientific player. If you bother to play with me one day, you'll see that personally.

My masterminding doesn't go any further than what most of us do when playing a weaker player whose weaknesses we know well (never balances when he should, never gets a lead right, screws up when declaring, etc.). The only difference is I'm not too scrupulous about it. I do it mostly because the people I use to play with occasionaly reveal suicidal tendencies. I feel I have the moral obligation save both of us from him B)

This sounds like one of my local partners... We play precision (or rather: I play precision with him...), but he likes to pass forcing bids... Once I had the auction 1♠ - 2♥ GF - 3♦, pass. He had - AKQJxxx Kxx Kxx. So now I decide to start masterminding, right? Well, the very next hand, we get into a RKC auction, and he shows me 3 keycards, when he really has 2 with a non-useful void... Then I ask for the Queen of trump... He shows me the queen with the K♣, he doesn't have the Queen and has the K♦. LOL. So I put him in 7... off an Ace, a King and the queen of trump. Luckily the ace we were off I was void in, so he took a ruffing finesse to get rid of his ♣ loser, and when the trump finesse worked and came down 3-2, he claimed making! I guess all's well that ends well, but now I blast things whenever I play at the club with him... :)
So in theory, I think Mike is right... But in practice, I think Nuno's got it...
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Posted 2009-April-03, 14:23

whereagles, on Apr 3 2009, 03:13 PM, said:

hey, I'm actually a very disciplined, scientific player.

LOL
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Posted 2009-April-03, 14:45

Sorry for the hijack, but this dialogue reminds me of a story.

I am always one to trust, and sometimes hang, my partner. Perhaps I took it too far a few years ago in the IMP pairs. It was day 1, last round, and it feels like we are right around even - toss up between qualifying for day 2 or not.

We sit down against my parents, with my mom on my right.

I do not remember the hand exactly, but partner opened 1NT, I bid 2NT, showing diamonds, and he bid 3C saying he liked diamonds, which my mom doubled. I had a great hand, so I jumped to 4D which we had agreed as keycard. Partner showed 1, and I had 2. However, I had the ace of clubs, and given the points I had, we could not be off two keys if my mom had a club card for her double. I decided to trust partner, and bid 5D, with 12 tricks lay down, and we did not Q. Afterward he gave me a hard time for not trusting my own mother.
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Posted 2009-April-03, 15:17

jdonn, on Apr 3 2009, 08:23 PM, said:

whereagles, on Apr 3 2009, 03:13 PM, said:

hey, I'm actually a very disciplined, scientific player.

LOL

Oh, you can be sure I'll hog the hand from you B)
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Posted 2009-April-03, 15:19

mtvesuvius, on Apr 3 2009, 08:20 PM, said:

This sounds like one of my local partners... We play precision (or rather: I play precision with him...), but he likes to pass forcing bids... Once I had the auction 1♠ - 2♥ GF - 3♦, pass. He had - AKQJxxx Kxx Kxx. So now I decide to start masterminding, right? Well, the very next hand, we get into a RKC auction, and he shows me 3 keycards, when he really has 2 with a non-useful void... Then I ask for the Queen of trump... He shows me the queen with the K♣, he doesn't have the Queen and has the K♦. LOL. So I put him in 7... off an Ace, a King and the queen of trump. Luckily the ace we were off I was void in, so he took a ruffing finesse to get rid of his ♣ loser, and when the trump finesse worked and came down 3-2, he claimed making! I guess all's well that ends well, but now I blast things whenever I play at the club with him... :)
So in theory, I think Mike is right... But in practice, I think Nuno's got it...

That's not masterminding, that's plain silly. B)
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