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IMPs [hv=pc=n&s=sq2hk742daqj82ckq&n=sajhajt5dkt3ct832&d=s&v=0&b=11&a=1np2cp2hp3s(agrees%20H%2C%20slam%20inv)p4c(q)p4d(q)p4np5hppp]266|200[/hv] Lead 9♦.

2S and 3S - undiscussed partner ♦ play - it can be from J3 or JT3 It is possible, but not very likely Yes

IMP's, good opponents [hv=pc=n&w=st62h632dk754c982&n=sa953hakjtda2cakj&d=e&v=e&b=6&a=ppp1c(16%2B)1sp(0-4)pdp2sp3sp4hp6hppp]266|200[/hv] First 3 tricks: 2♠ - A♠ - K♠ - 4♠ A♦ - 3♦ - 6♦ - 4♦ 2♦ - J♦ - Q♦ - K♦ What now?

We just saw a big collapse, lol, wrong team though. Yeah right.

Still waiting for the collapse. It seems Brady has lost his last 5 playoff games against Manning family.

This was one of the discussion points after the hand: 3♣ forcing or not? Should I assume the "standard" is non-forcing?

Double of 2S bid would not be support (I will also edit original post)

[hv=pc=n&s=s7hk4dakj8764cak7&d=s&v=0&b=11&a=1dp1h2s]133|200[/hv] IMP's What would you bid now? Support doubles only on up to 2♥ level, so off now

Make sense.

Weren't the last 7 years a success?

Yeap, at this point he is playing almost as good as Peyton.

Today, at BB, all vul, after (2♥) - P - (4♥), David Bakhshi doubled with: AKJxxx Ax KQ Axx

6♣

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Lately BBO client, both windows and web (when playing or only watching vugraph), are freezing quite often. I have to basically switch back and forth between web and windows client: when web client does not move anymore, I login with the windows client (web client getting disconnected) which works for a few minutes. Then windows client freezes and I have to login back with the web client (windows client gets disconnected) which works for a few minutes and then this continues on and on. This happens on my Windows 8 laptop. I don't think there is anything wrong with my Internet provider since: - no problems when browsing or remote desktoping - on my iPad everything works fine, no freeze happens Any ideas?

T1: win A♦ T2: small to A♥ T3: ruff ♥ small T4: ruff ♦ small T5: ruff ♥ small T6: A♣ [hv=pc=n&w=saqhd6c9764&e=skjt5hqdckt]266|100[/hv] T7: small ♣ makes every time N is not void in clubs, irrespective of where K♥ is: S is most likely to have it, but maybe he can find a double with: void JT9x(x) KQJx(x) QJxx we are also down if S has 6 hearts or singleton club, but that would be very unlikely

If LHO has a singleton K♣, as in: Jxxx xxx xxxxx K, we are down as RHO can overtake K with the A and play another club for a promotion. So we should be safe to ruff a club in hand ( with the T if it makes you feel better :) ) and hope that spades behave.

IMP, Vul vs not AQ32 Q K642 Q863 LHO deals and opens: (1♣) - double - (1♥) - ??

IMP, red vs white AQ986 AJ6 98 T53 LHO deals: (1D) - P - (P) - 1S (P) - 2D - (P) - ?? 2/1 agreed, not much else.

I really meant Q♠ at trick 2 :) Spades were N:AJTxxx W:Qx E:Kxxx S:x When, at trick 2, N played A♠, declarer played Q♠ from hand instead of a small one, probably trying to convince N that he has a singleton. It did not work :)

Playing Q♠ at trick 2 was not a smart move. If first 4 tricks are: ♦: A 7 Q 3 ♠: A 3 9 7 ♠: J 4 4(♥) Q ♦: K 9 2 3(♥) The position now is: [hv=pc=n&s=sh92dj8754cq3&w=shkqj7dtca985&n=st852h86dct42&e=sk6hat5dckj76]399|300[/hv] cross in hand with a trump, ruff 10♦ with A♥, draw trumps now N is known to have been 6223 play remaining trumps, N needs to keep 2 spades and discard 1 club and you have the rest regardless where Q♣ is. Show-up :)

The play Patriots were not well prepared for? Stopping the power run: they were dead-last in the league. Seattle were second best in running it: http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/dl But yeah, let's run a pass play to Lockette, who has a whooping 18 catches in his 4 year long career.

They can run 2nd down at 0:40, if they are blocked run 3rd down at 0:15 and call a TO before the 4th down run. There was time if they wanted to. Very true that if they go in with 0:35 on the clock and 2 timeouts they give NE a chance. But defense (ya, I know, they got shredded in the 4th) and Lynch got them that far, why go away from it?

If you think an interception from 1-2 yards out never happened in SB before, you can watch Kurt Warner throwing one: Pass play can go wrong if: defense makes an amazing play and makes an interception (like last night) QB makes a bad throw and gets intercepted (like last night, lol) pass bounces from receiver hands and gets intercepted (it just happened twice for RW against Packers) receiver catches the ball before goal line and fumbles it Run play can go wrong if: fumble at hand-off running back fumbles the ball Carroll tried to be too cute and got bitten. He was lucky with first half last play call and with Kearse catch and was pushing it. Are there statistics for how often you have 3 tries to run the ball 1 yard and fail? With Lynch running the ball? edit: 2 weeks ago everybody was agreeing with Justin that you can't settle for field goals when you have the best passing QB. Now there are people defending decision to pass the ball when you have the best RB in the game. :P

1st and goal, Lynch was stopped at 1 yard line at around 1 minute mark, so there is time for 3 run plays if they wanted to. If you think the play call was bad, wait till you read the explanations: Offensive coordinator: "We were conscious of how much time was on the clock and we wanted to use it all" Pete Carroll: "We were going to run the ball in to win the game, but not on that play" So they wanted to eat up clock. How do you do that? By running a pass play, and not any pass play, but a inside slant into traffic. Brilliant. How often do you expect to see a guy who was selling shoes at Footlocker a few months ago and who did not catch a pass in NFL before this game to have 100+ yards in the Super Bowl? How often do you think Kearse will make the same catch again?