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THE DECREE

Poll: Someone died and made you king. Your first decree is: (51 member(s) have cast votes)

Someone died and made you king. Your first decree is:

  1. behead flannery (14 votes [27.45%])

    Percentage of vote: 27.45%

  2. behead drury (2 votes [3.92%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.92%

  3. revoke the rule of 20 (7 votes [13.73%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.73%

  4. hunt those who steal doubles and banish them (25 votes [49.02%])

    Percentage of vote: 49.02%

  5. behead wilkoz (3 votes [5.88%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.88%

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#1 User is offline   babalu1997 

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Posted 2010-June-14, 08:37

my first will be to try those double thieves for treason

then i will revoke the rule of 20

as observed in aprofile at bbo: i observe the rule of 20.

what? people observe the ten commandments, but the rule of 20?

View PostFree, on 2011-May-10, 03:57, said:

Babalu just wanted a shoulder to cry on, is that too much to ask for?
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Posted 2010-June-14, 08:47

The scariest words in all of bridge are

"You play Stolen Bid doubles, don't you dearie..."
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Posted 2010-June-14, 09:03

Do you mean all the double cards missing from bidboxes? Or something from actual play? ;)
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Posted 2010-June-14, 09:17

Stolen bid doubles
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Posted 2010-June-14, 09:20

King Phil the Generous still wants to win tournaments, and if my loyal subjects play C: and D:, I will have a better chance.

However, I will instruct the royal printer to change the "Defense to 1N Openings" from all those silly suit symbols to four tickboxes that say:
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Posted 2010-June-14, 09:55

Voted for (against) the stolen bid doubles. But, would allow them only if not accompanied by the usual BIT's and body language which make them clear.

Everything else listed is fine by me for the opponents to use --and not fine by me to use.
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Posted 2010-June-14, 09:55

Am I allowed to go off-menu? If I were in charge, the first conventions up against the wall would be:
- Mini splinters
- Transfer superaccepts that say somethng about a side-suit
- Support redoubles
- "Game-forcing" two-over-one responses that aren't game-forcing
- 2-way Drury (actually I plagiarised this particular dislike)
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Posted 2010-June-14, 10:05

gnasher, on Jun 14 2010, 09:55 AM, said:

- Support redoubles

Absolutely. The call which returns the favor back to the opponents who took up none of our bidding room, by taking up none of their bidding room.
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Posted 2010-June-14, 10:06

hrothgar, on Jun 14 2010, 09:47 AM, said:

The scariest words in all of bridge are

"You play Stolen Bid doubles, don't you dearie..."

....says my RHO and I respond "NO WAY JOSE, but you are welcome to use them B) "
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Posted 2010-June-14, 15:18

Wow, this is tough. Flannery, Drury, and Stolen Bid are all things I would hate to ever be forced to play... but my opps who play stolen bid do give me a lot of tops, and flannery is more or less harmless, so I had to vote for Drury.

And of course if I catch up with whoever made such a useful and straightforward convention as Wilkosz Brown Sticker, he's going to vanish into the dungeons for a long time.
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Posted 2010-June-14, 15:33

A flawed poll. Why can't I check them all?
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Posted 2010-June-14, 17:15

Forbid Ghestem, any convention its inventor forgets should be banished first.
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Posted 2010-June-15, 02:36

You forgot to ban 4♣ always Gerber :P

And Wilkosz is already beheaded in most parts of the world, boohoo :(
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Posted 2010-June-15, 03:11

ban F and G. Always!
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Posted 2010-June-15, 05:07

Cyberyeti, on Jun 15 2010, 08:15 AM, said:

Forbid Ghestem, any convention its inventor forgets should be banished first.

+1

No need to ban the rest. They can use these conventions all day long.
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Posted 2010-June-15, 05:31

I voted Rule of 20 which does not add to the sum of human knowledge but would certainly have voted for Ghestem given the chance. It would end 40 appeals per year and remove the need for several thousand forms showing how players fielded their partners bid ostensibly showing spades and diamonds when it was actually a WJO to be stored.
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Posted 2010-June-15, 06:13

-BEHEAD GERBEN!
-Your majesty, wouldn't you mean Gerber?
-mmm, ok, behead him too
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Posted 2010-June-15, 07:27

whereagles, on Jun 15 2010, 10:11 AM, said:

ban F and G. Always!

what about reversed F's and G's?
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Posted 2010-June-15, 07:58

thou speakest of teh devil!!
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Posted 2010-June-16, 03:42

I was just thinking of reversed fishbein... :P
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