[paulhar]

pclayton, on Sep 16 2004, 03:17 PM, said:

Instead of "Jacoby 2N" - say "forcing raise with 4+ trump"
Instead of "Puppet Stayman", say "he's asking me if I have a 4 or 5 card major".
Instead of "Cappaletti (blecccchhhh)", say "hearts and a minor".

Agree wholeheartedly. On the other hand, a lot of people don't do that and we can't educate them all.

It's even more obvious that this is necessary because people in different countries play differently (even the same convention.)

Everybody knows what a transfer is, right? NOT! Out of 35 tables in my wife's Monday morning class, not more than seven tables know what they are. (These are not beginners.) Also, it's quite innocent for someone to open Namyats (4D for spades) and alert it as 'xfer'. Just as innocently, his opponent will think he has hearts.

But how often does someone tell you 5+ hearts when transferring to hearts? It's almost always 'xfer' if they bother to alert at all. More frequently, they just type 'xfer' in the chat

[luke warm]

pclayton, on Sep 16 2004, 10:06 PM, said:

Sigh; I know the difference too. Its not germane to the discussion anyway.

it's germane when you play like i did

5 hearts is an impossibility, unless 2515, when the slam is down, which means my line has no chance

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They don't have much. East looks like a man with really good clubs (given the club King). West surely didn't double on the heart Q. So playing him to have KQx of diamonds is just about right. You need to ruffs some black cards and thow away a heart.

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Play to this position, ruff the heart, exit a small diamond. Congrads to those of you who got it right. :-)

Ben

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10 points to paul.
congrats.

[Free]

This reminds me of a hand where someone doubled with KQT in trumps! His partner asked him "why the Dbl?", he said "I thought I had 2 tricks", where upon the final response came: "you had 2 tricks, but your Dbl gave one away."

I certainly don't see anyone play this hand like this way when there's no Dbl