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Group A mythdoc 8.5 - 7.5 cherdano https://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:57ebb7ca.d83c.11ea.b96d.0cc47a39aeb4-1596756427&u=mythdoc&v3b=web&v3v=5.6.6#row-

I find playing these hands crazy-making. Just when you’ve convinced yourself that you keep losing boards because you haven’t bid aggressively enough, you lose two in a row by being too aggressive.

sep123 9-7 mythdoc https://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:52c85804.d74c.11ea.b96d.0cc47a39aeb4-1596653339&u=mythdoc&v3b=web&v3v=5.6.6#row-

Group A twisterrz 8.5 - 7.5 mythdoc https://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:be7f8fc3.d59d.11ea.b96d.0cc47a39aeb4-1596468407&u=mythdoc&v3b=web&v3v=5.6.6#row-

milbridge 11-5 mythdoc https://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:35756d4b.d43f.11ea.b96d.0cc47a39aeb4-1596317853&u=mythdoc&v3b=web&v3v=5.6.5#row-

Ah, thank you

I’d like a setting where player can toggle between slower/faster card play when playing robot games. Slower might not mean actually slow, but slower than the comparatively manic pace that the robots play cards currently. I know they stop when it’s my turn, duh, but six cards might play very quickly between my turns. In a table game, I can keep my card showing for just a beat while I process the trick just played. Here I can’t. Maybe instead of slowing the pace of each card played, another way would be to allow a setting for a one or two second pause after completion of each trick.

I am well aware, thank you. I like to break up the round into shorter pieces. It’ll get done, not to worry.

Not to worry, good sir. mythdoc 8-8 gordontd Group A https://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:0c7cdb39.d36a.11ea.b96d.0cc47a39aeb4-1596226301&u=mythdoc&v3b=web&v3v=5.6.5#row-

mythdoc 9.5-6.5 GIB https://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:ce1c87cd.d43f.11ea.b96d.0cc47a39aeb4-1596318109&u=mythdoc&v3b=web&v3v=5.6.5#row-

derppp 9-7 mythdoc https://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:906313d0.d2a8.11ea.b96d.0cc47a39aeb4-1596143200&u=mythdoc&v3b=web&v3v=5.6.5#row-

Yes, sfi and I were defending 14 of our 16 challenge boards, my first taste of this format. Opening leads are often key. When I kibitzed my Dad back in the day, when someone would ask if he played standard leads, he’d reply: ”substandard.” Maybe the original “dad joke,” lol.

Please don’t anyone challenge me for a couple of days. I’ll be able to play a second match this weekend. Result from Group A sfi 9.5 : mythdoc 6.5 https://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:09e67249.cf9b.11ea.b96d.0cc47a39aeb4-1595807538&u=mythdoc&v3b=web&v3v=5.6.5#row-

An interesting way to look at this hand is what would your partnership expect? In mine, my bidding 6♠ directly would be typical of me and acceptable to him, but if my partner bid 6♣ with the same hand it would be reasonable and typical. When dealing with freak hands I’m not sure that it is worthwhile having an agreement in place. So much can go right or wrong. While I can imagine a set of hands the opponents may have that would make 7, especially without a club lead, I still don’t believe they will bid it. Where that leaves me, is I don’t want to give them the information that would entice THEM to take a save in 7♥, if one of them has a singleton or doubleton club, for example.

We only need the ♣K from partner and ♠xxxxx to make 6, David. I’m bidding it, not as a save, but with high hopes of making it. Well worth the risk to me at IMPs. Let the opponents worry about bidding 7 of their suit. I don’t think they have the stomach for it.

The failure to alert rules do not call for a top for the other team regardless of circumstances. In this case the dummy comes down and the director is not immediately called. After that it gets messy, and part of the fault for it getting messy has to be laid at the feet of the player who kept his silence, played out the hand, and then still wanted to get relief. That is the point of the original post. And the counter arguments I am reading in the thread all dance around this basic point with practiced sophistry. That’s my proposed name: “the call of the advanced sophist“

Somehow I am reassured by this.

Yes, but how much better to ruff on trick 3 then lead out the low spade. Might go down two. South has my sympathies.

I dare say no one not playing with the cards face up has ever gotten to the last three tricks of a hand where all the aces and two of the kings have yet to be played. Of course, those Aces could be queens or kings and the squeeze position would still work. Bridge is a fascinating game.

Upon further rumination, I appear to be unsure about the choice of the word “pool.” The word suggests a preexisting supply, which conjures some kind of curation process. If all that is meant is “partial duplicate field scoring,” or similar, why not just say that?

Ok, thanks, and just to clarify: by “flat” I didn’t mean flat distribution of suits, I meant flat outcomes where almost everyone is in 3NT making 10 tricks, for example, or for that matter, 4H off two. Any outcome that is flat on the scoresheet.

<above quote from BBO online, 2019> It is very hard to find information about how Deal Pool works, other than it is an “anti-cheating measure.” So far, so good. I have a simple question: are there any other filters involved in the selection of hands for the deal pool that are used for purposes other than anti cheating? For instance, and specifically, is there any attempt to promote hands that generate a wider spread of results at matchpoints or IMPs, and to demote hands that generate flat boards? This might be done in the name of making daylong tournaments “fairer,” for instance, I couldn’t say. But I’d very much like to know the answer to this question. Thanks in advance.

It’s only a little like playing teams, actually. The whole point of IMPs is making a Bidding or play decision against a single other table, not against a field. This is a hybrid of matchpoints with the IMP scoring table superimposed over the top of a field result. It’s fine I suppose for practicing for an upcoming actual IMPS match, when the pressure is much higher.

The numbers are underreported in many countries by a large magnitude. The US numbers are a joke, and this thing is just ramping up.

Are you using Safari? What OS? I mainly use my iPad without problems except when the server was overloaded.