Ant590

Ok, so I've been going through some suit combinations and I have a follow-up question I'm hoping someone can help me with. Say we have the standard combination AQTxx xxxx for 5 tricks. Now I know the best line is small to Q then cash Ace, hoping for Kx onside or stiff jack offside. But say RHO has shown 12 outside cards, then it must be right to finesse the ten. So my question is: Presumably then there is some dividing line here when it is better odds to play the double finesse? How about a 3-level or 2-level opening by righty? Is there a good general rule here or is it all gut instinct?

Hi all, Posted in the BIL forum because I don't think the question is deep, but I'd still like to see what everyone thinks the "right" answer is. 1♣ -- (2♥) -- 2♠ -- (3♥) dbl -- (pass) -- 3♠ (1) forcing or non-forcing? (2) if forcing, does it set the suit?

This reminds me of an EBU Spring Fours deal when someone went out to the toilet past a group of players discussing the hands, and came back to bid something like that. I can't remember the ins and outs of what happened, but I think the director wasn't called about it.

Oh goodness no, it isn't a patch on either of those films! I was just meaning I felt there were similarities in the plot and style. I haven't seen many films this year, but Inception beats the ones I have seen (for instance I thought Robin Hood was shockingly bad).

I thought inception was the best movie of the year so far. Kind of a cross between The Matrix and The Sting (two of my favourite movies).

In my copy of Watson's play of the hand there is a footnote on page 18: `Writers on bridge have used the "finesse" very carelessly. So that there may be no misunderstanding, the reader should note the correct usage observed in this book, as follows. "To finesse a card" is to play that card; thus, in the example just given [AQ opposite 32], the Queen is finessed. The outstanding King is the card finessed "against", or the card the player hopes to capture by his finessing manoeuvre. Thus you finesse against a missing honor, but you finesse the card you yourself play, the card finessed being so played that it has a chance of winning against the higher card.' Guess they were having the equivalent of this thread in 1934 too :unsure:

See http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=14166 and http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=32153 and http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=14161 for a couple of `(3x) - 3NT- (P) - ?' threads

Further to this in the flash client you can go to the options (bottom left where the deal is displayed on the right section of the screen) when a board is displayed, and you can select export deal. Then got to "save deal as", and it will save it to a virtual folder on the server. You have to do this for every hand in turn, but while partner tanks you'll have time. Ant.

Modified unbalanced diamond base with (almost)2/1 GF and plenty of bad judgement

Hey, thanks for the offer. Hanoi has offered to do the Tuesday slot via a private message; he's 90% certain he can make it. Would it be possible for us to pencil in the Wednesday in case he doesn't make it, or perhaps for you to be a 'back-up' on the Tuesday? :) Ant.

Hey all, Anyone free who could host the competition at/around one of these times please? Tuesday (tomorrow) - 4pm UK/ 5pm Paris/ 11am New york/ 8am San Francisco* Wednesday (July 21) - 4pm UK/ 5pm Paris/ 11am New york/ 8am San Francisco* Cheers! * In case I've got these wrong, it's the same time the Quarter-Finals, Segment 2 stage of the Polish Team Championships starts on vugraph.

I think this is what happens when one lets acol wee in the pool

I was wondering which poster had most logins? I'm at 6k, but I suspect this is on the low side.

Many thanks for the person categories feature, it's been a request for a while and great to see it implemented. On the "sort by category" option, it would be good to be able to have more than one category open at a time, although I can see how multiple scroll bars may be an issue when there is more than a couple of categories open.

+1 for Gib/Gib Might be useful to make the bracket work too.

Also, I'm not sure if this is in the Conditions of Contest, but I'd be happy to `host' a pair's bidding table after I have bid the hands myself.

I like the bracket idea, but I think we can operate an honor system in terms of the kibitzing. I think it will be tough to regulate, so seems sensible to allow notes. If they're all tricky hands then 10-12 is plenty. If they're a randomly dealt set (but duplicated), then 16 seems the minimum to get a good sample of a pair's ability on tough hands.

ant590 - crayzeejim

Holding ♠5 ♥AKQJ95 ♦T53 ♣J54 in 4th seat (Favourable vul): P - P - 1♠ - 1NT This is a __________ Psyche.

I usually find this is defined to be the opposite of whatever hand I want to bid it on at the time ;)

I'd appreciate RSS, and the "reputation" button in version 3.1. Does anyone know if old threads would disappear if we upgraded? This would be a bad thing.

did you have a diamond stop? What was the whole hand?

It's just been announced that the replay will be on Vugraph.

And the BBC sport website has crashed under the pressure!

Pretty sure I used this as a food-asking NT raise at some point...