[iviehoff]

NickRW, on Sep 1 2009, 02:41 PM, said:

Actually, I think the best luck of the cards (if you're a stronger pair) is to get the weak hands when a weak pair comes to your table - they have more decisions to make and will generally get some wrong, probably giving you a good result for little work.

However, you need to get good cards when a stronger pair arrives at the table - because if they have good cards they will generally do better than the other weak pairs with such hands. Even though the stronger pair will take all they are due in defence it will not help them a lot if you're in the right contract and a significant number of the field isn't.

So you are saying if you are a strong pair you want to have poor cards and if you are a weak pair you want to have good cards. Seems to me you contradicted yourself.

[helene_t]

No.
1) If two strong pairs meet each other, both want to have the good cards.
2) If two weak pairs meet, both want to have the bad cards.
3) If a strong pair meets a week pair, both want to have the bad cards, although it is less important than it is in case 2).

Makes sense to me.

Something else:

Once I was playing with some friends and one of the opponents god tired of me always getting good cards and she always getting bad cards. So at one point, after I had dealt, she swapped my cards with hers, expecting her to get my good cards for a change.

I took up the cards originally dealt to her. And opened 2NT.

[jdonn]

The most interesting thing I ever saw on the hand records was a hand where NS make exactly 9 tricks on double dummy play and defense in all 5 strains.

[NickRW]

iviehoff, on Sep 24 2009, 03:23 PM, said:

NickRW, on Sep 1 2009, 02:41 PM, said:

Actually, I think the best luck of the cards (if you're a stronger pair) is to get the weak hands when a weak pair comes to your table - they have more decisions to make and will generally get some wrong, probably giving you a good result for little work.

However, you need to get good cards when a stronger pair arrives at the table - because if they have good cards they will generally do better than the other weak pairs with such hands.  Even though the stronger pair will take all they are due in defence it will not help them a lot if you're in the right contract and a significant number of the field isn't.

So you are saying if you are a strong pair you want to have poor cards and if you are a weak pair you want to have good cards. Seems to me you contradicted yourself.

I think you need to re-read what I wrote - you might not agree with what I said, but I don't think there is anything contradictory in it.

Nick