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Huh? And why is that?

I have never seen Shubi play in an individual (he may, but I don't recall ever seeing him do so). He plays strictly in ACBL pairs tournaments and has been one of the top 5 (i think) MP leaders for the online MP awards for the last several years. The majority of his partners are strictly randoms.

And what happens when East wins the 2nd heart and continues a 3rd round of spades? Won't they win two high hearts, a spade ruff, and the Ace of diamonds now?

The odds of a 6-0 break is 1.49% for either hand to be void, 1/2 of that (where RHO is void) is 0.745%. Did you really mean the 1st trick?

roflmao. When I click on this link at work: woman This is what our companies filtering list gives me: "The Websense category "Gambling" is filtered."

I think Alex should have bid 5H. :o

Is this a serious question? If it is, the answer is no. 2S (unless otherwise agreed) shows a positive response. Most people play it as a good 5 card suit that contains 2 of the top 3 honors. I was actualy meaning a 2♠ opening. Oh. I misread the question then. :) The answer is still no, though. :o

Is this a serious question? If it is, the answer is no. 2S (unless otherwise agreed) shows a positive response. Most people play it as a good 5 card suit that contains 2 of the top 3 honors.

What he said.

Wouldn't ducking the first diamond (paying off to a stiff in LHO's hand), then win A diamonds, draw trumps, AK♥, and cashing the rest of the spades reducing to: ♠x ♦x ♣x opposite ♥10 ♣AQ as we play the last spade, give you a better shot to make than simply picking a finesse? We can have a legitimate squeeze, a legitimate endplay on RHO at this point if we think he holds the last diamond (yes, it is possible that RHO might could escape this endplay though by pitching his high diamond), the club finesse is still available, we might have dropped the heart Q (not probable, but possible), and we certainly have a better count on the hand than we do than if we earlier tried to guess a finesse. Not to mention the sadistic pleasure of watching at least one opponent squirm. Heck, that by itself makes this a better line, even if we go wrong in the end position. :) Surely this is much higher than 50%, though I admit I have never been good at estimating percentages of lines of play, my guess is that this is closer to being in the 75-85% range than the "only slightly better than 50%". No? Feel free to correct my errors, otherwise I am missing something.

Assuming the opponents are reasonably competent, aren't they usually already in a game forcing auction? Who cares what we are preempting, bid 4♠. If we only bid 3, we can be fairly certain that they likely have a club fit and can now show it (4♣) or cue it (4♠) on their way to wherever they are going. I even think it's quite likely 6♣ is making. By bidding 4S directly, we take both of these options off the table for the opponents and may get left to play 4S doubled. If not, 5♣ now by LHO may leave RHO guessing whether to move on or not, since the 5C bid is made under extreme pressure. I just don't see a whole lot of pressure being applied by the mundane 3S call, which does nothing but leave the opponents with a variety of options to continue describing their hands. jmoo.

Is the result all that awful? -800 against -620 or -650.Could have been -500?Happens all the time but N should have bid 4♠ to begin with. At Matchpoints, it's a likely zero.

Kind of hard for him to hold 4 of the 5 keycards for spades, when you are looking at two of them yourself, isn't it?

1. A much better hand 2. A partner who I wanted to punish 3. About half a bottle of tequila hehe. Well said.

At this vulnerability, I would bid 4♠ initially and be done with it. I expect to be minus two (or three) vs. 4H/5m making on most hands.

Does either hand have either the 10 or the 9?

Grand total 2.59% So why do I keep getting so danged many of them? :) :D

I don't like Benlassard's post. I don't consider any of these to be an "aggressive" 1♠ overcall. Most of his examples seem perfectly normal (or at least, reasonable) 1♠ overcalls. Some of them may even use Michaels instead though. By "aggressive" overcall, I suspect cherdano means something more along the lines of: K10xxx x Axx xxxx or even worse, but I'm certain he will correct me if I am wrong. 4♠ for me.

Its that ugly picture. It distracts me. :)

I hope you do leave it in. I'm more than happy to be +500 or more. But on the other hand, if the_hog was my partner (which is never going to happen), I would run like the wind.

Try making it on a trump lead. (I don't think its possible). If the PC says yes- it means YES! U take the trump lead from dummy and play ♠. What now ?- if E takes with ♠K -trump finesse next. If W takes wit the ♠A, -♠K drops after 2 more rounds ♠ rufs. We make 5♣, 3♦, 2 ♠ rufs, and 2 ♠ tricks. Get serious please, you will not get two spade tricks. I don't know what you mean by PC (either Personal Computer or Playing Captain) but in either case, its wrong. East will win the 1st spade with either the K or the 10, depending on what card you played from dummy and return his 2nd trump. You will still have to lose another spade....since you can now only ruff two spades in hand, not three, and you do not have the spots to create a second spade trick via any sort of ruffing finesse. Maybe you should look twice before using a tone like this. If RHO wins the K when you lead from dummy, you take the ruffing finesse against the A. Nah, I just need to figure out which hand is dummy first .... LOL. He's leading the 7 spades 1st. I'm reading leading a spade from dummy as leading from the long spade hand.....

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