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Is there any reason to suspect they are lying? South might reasonable fear that north think she has 4 spades due to the cue bid and want to play in nt for a wide variety of reasons, a bad spade split suggested by preempt coupled with partner potentially having only 4 spades, defense getting a heart or diamond ruff in early and the mere fact that nt scores more when south has no ruffing value(can't ruff a heart, if partner has 3, lho has 2 and higher trump then dummy) and spades wrong sides her king of hearts, potentially costing an additional trick right off(clearly north has heart length with no heart rise by east) I really have trouble with the idea of forcing people into good slams that happen to go down due to circumstances neither of them could be aware of(ie, no possible relevant UI about the bad trump split and quick club loser that can only be reasonable gained due to the person on lead having both the kq♣ and the natural trump trick). North pass on the other hand seems totally normal(assuming nt is natural), never got directly supported, has an additional heart stopper and has the strong hand with the running spade suit promised by bidding it twice. Unless you think they are actively lying, this strikes me as grossly unfair. And further, even if you think they are lying and that call was intended to be rkc, why would north pass with that hand? Slow 4nt or not. Really looking forward to seeing how I am understanding this wrong cause it looks grossly unfair to me right now(not a director)

Well, that was the question, I wasn't trying to claim I was merely trying to assist the defense in speeding up their play.

Can the declarer face all their cards while declining to give a line of play. Intending the defense to either concede or play out the hand normally with the defense doing it in full view of declarer's hand. This came up recently when a defender went into a long tank while on lead and I faced my cards. The line of play was quite different and somewhat convoluted depending on which card the defender played. I didn't want to declare a line of play because I might stumble over the explanation despite it being fairly clear in my head. It was moot as the defenders did just concede, but I was wondering what would happen if they didn't and didn't want to continue with the play.

Took me about 4 minutes to find black ace black ace small heart. This is a pseudo trap, you still actually make. 4 diamonds 2 hearts 4 clubs 2 spades. Just give up the queen of diamonds without finessing it.

Great article, from it, my word for the day.

So we are good than? Assuming BBO is using the default LFG, there doesn't seem to be a realistic attack that can be setup against it.

I bet lukewarm thinks you're his friend now :)

The only substantive edit was to modify my west bid from an easy 2♦ to probably 2♦. Never did i suggest east should pass instead of bidding 2♦. Esst has a very easy call here, I would also bid ♦ with the 4441 dist. None of this makes the failure of bidding 2♦ with easts 4351 hand any less absurd.

The first two yes. I think west has to bid, not sure what given the way east is bidding, probably 2♦. However that doesn't absolve east of 110% of the blame, no reason not to bid 2♦ over 2♣. Doesn't take up any room, leaves no room for confusion and perfectly describes the hand. There is no reason to suspect east might want to convert the 3rd take out double to penalty, he could have doubled immediately if that were the case. There is nothing to be gained by doubling the 3rd time but giving partner the chance to go very wrong. Not to mention east seems intent on wrong siding the contract.

Luke warm could witness a coin flip and come to a different conclusion about who won.

Little confused, are you saying the 3♣ created a gf that west assumed was true when he bid 3♥ fully expecting his partner to bid again? Can a passed hand create a gf when partner has merely rebid their suit at the 2 level?

Multiplying something by zero results in zero. Multiplying something by 1 results in no change.

What if partner takes you for 3 and decides continuing is safe?

Does it involve time travel?

Have to admit, I may not be following this all that well, but my understanding is that for the multiplier to be zero, the stimulus money would have to have no impact on the economy. This would be equivalent to setting 100% of the money on fire and not using it for warmth, light or making any entertaining point. Even when you look at a 'complete failure' like Solyndra, the money paid people's salaries, paid for manufacturing, The salaries was used to buy coffee at the local Starbucks, spend a night out at the movies, etc. All positive impacts on the economy, granted the multiplier is still not 1, not worth it in this specific case. But it was still well above 0 and not all stimulus was a failure like Solyndra. Not only that, but I think the private corporations receiving the money would have to burn 100% of the cash. If the government burned their own cash, that really only costs them the amount of money it costs to physically reprint/replace the money. And reprinting the money will put people to work. In fact actually printing trillions of dollars for the private companies to burn would entail quite a lot of economic stimulus for the money printing industry. It is very likely impossible to get to a 0 multiplier.

Correct, calling someone a lair, through verbal or non verbal means, is not an ad hominem.

I think it is funny that you are commiting an ad hominen attack on Biden while erronously acusing him of the same. Attacking Biden for his facial expressions is an attack on the man. Saying someone is making stuff up is not an attack on the man. It could be wrong, but everything that is wrong is not an ad hominen. Because you appear to be so unclear on the subject. If I merely say you are wrong. That is an unsubstantiated claim. If I say are wrong because you are an uneducated janitor. That is an ad hominen. If I say you are wrong, and is how. That is a substantiated claim.

Pretty sure the man being married isn't a requirement for being a sugar daddy. Older, likely, showering gifts upon the woman, certainly, married optional. Also, as the OP was presented, for all we know the woman is the richer one showering the gifts.

Adulterer!

No reason for it not to be here imo. They are bbo players, one of them made a suggestion and asked for other bbo players to show support. Not entirely clear what they are asking for as they are not native English speakers, not too surprising that the other non native English speakers can't add much other than their support. Maybe another tab pane on the user info for groups/orgs. With an option to link to semi approved outside websites supporting those clubs?

It's Wikipedia, if you want to fix it, go ahead. But I think you will find if you read it that it clearly mentions all your points.

That wouldn't actually solve the (non)problem. The problem is that max number that rand() can come up with isn't divisible by 13, thus when you use the % operator(mod), there are more cases for the lower numbers than the higher numbers. As an example, we can use a really tiny max number to make it really explicit. If the max number rand() can come up with is 2^4-1(15). Thus rand() will generate an integer between 0 and 15 inclusive. 0 % 13 = 0 1 % 13 = 1 2 % 13 = 2 3 % 13 = 3 4 % 13 = 4 ... 13 % 13 = 0 14 % 13 = 1 15 % 13 = 2 If we assign 0 to represent dealing a 2 of a suit and 12 to an Ace of a suit than the first card dealt is twice as likely to be a 2(0) than an A(12). What seed we use has no impact on this. However using a really gigantic MAX_RAND diminishes the biases to the level Barmar stated.

ahydra thinks he is behind the dummy. A frequent mistake I still often make due to the inconsistent way in which the hand viewer displays the hand when only two directions are shown. Though I have made this mistake so often I always triple check now :)

I worthy topic in its own right, reminds me of when I read up on the actual Adam and Eve(spoiler, they never met) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam

Bridge isn't really that complex due to the rules. It is complex because it is a game of incomplete knowledge that has wide open bidding possibilities. With respect to the bidding, you can write your own rules with really very few restrictions. These other games are complex because the rules makes them so, rules that are handed from up high.