bleurose51

I am no expert but one thing I have noticed about almost ALL of pilowsky's posts is that you seem to be SO focused on results and almost not at all on how to bid/play properly. Missing the "ultimate" possible result doesn't mean you haven't bid correctly. In many bridge hands, there simply is no perfect way to bid (and in some cases play). Almost every post of yours has some quirky thing and then you say something like "and I went down 1" or "how do I get to the "right" contract 4H" except you ignore (or seem to ) that maybe down 1 is just fine or maybe 4h isn't the right contract. (To be fair in this one you did add "how would you get to 4H... or would you?" ). For me I certainly don't think I would. I would say in this hand (as several others have said) I would NEVER want to assume that 22 pts and a 7 card trump suit will make game. We know that on average it WON'T. So why do you want to get to a contract that depends on a specific lead and a specific lay of the hearts, and a perfect split in diamonds, etc.? Especially if you are going down in TWO :-) Maybe you should focus on how to make TWO on this hand (or even THREE) than on bidding FOUR. Sorry, not trying to be overly critical, but it is something I have noticed in most of your posts (the focus on the best possible result and not necessarily on the best reasonable result) and I have not said anything before this. Again, I think your posts are interesting to read and I enjoy them, but I'd love to move you towards thinking about reasonable results if you are going to look at results at all. Best of luck.