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I will arrive around 145 pm for system chat

I am all in favor of heads of all kinds of agencies deciding to pass rules/regulations w/o showing them to the ones that will be affected by those rules/regulations. How else can I get a chuckle reading about SB???????:) too bad government idiot rules can be dangerous.

trick 1 ruff (yay) trick 2 heart ace trick 3 club to ace Hoping for 11 split trick 4 dia K pitching heart If clubs split 11 trick 5 low heart ruff (you never know lho might have started with a doubleton K or a singleton) trick 6 small trump to dummy trick 7 Now I think the heart Q intending to take a ruffing finesse seems right since it seems reasonable lho has at least 2 spades (dia ace seems too risky with a singleton) 2 hearts 1 club 7 dia seems reasonable so only 1 vacant space left vs a TON for rho. this is only a small improvement over Zelandakh If clubs fail to split flip a coin and good luck

The 4s bid is indeed odd but the 6s bid is other worldly bad. Once p has been warned you have a no defense distributional hand that x is done with malice (and a mallet) leave it in.

future reference I will play with anyone:))))))))))))))))))) all I ask is they show up maybe 10 min prior to match to discuss carding system etc.

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trick 3 I will try the top dia with the intention of pitching a heart (I no longer have to worry about 2 heart losers) if rho has (a highly unlikely) 3 dia or fails to ruff. If rho does ruff I will overruff and bang down the spade A and another spade. If lho stated with Kx they may feel endplayed and defend improperly (nothing wrong with giving the defense a chance to make a mistake). Worst case scenario we should have enough dummy entries to take the club finesses and lead toward the heart K (if needed).

x and intending to do nothing over any simple rebid by p (except raise 3h to 4h). Why this point of view with so much? It is because this hand is actually slightly WORSE than p expects you to have on average. Does that sound bonkers? Think about it lho passed p passed and rho preempted. Lho and p on average with have around 6.5 and the preempter probably closer to 8.5. So our average hand is around 18.5. P will know this and bid accordingly. This is one of the main reason preempts work so well they force opps to rely more on averages than specifics.

it is not hare to work around the dealer being stuck at north but it is ESSENTIAL for new players to pay attention to vulnerability and allowing a choice of random vulnerability (a choice that is not available) seems to be the way to go BUT even the 4 choices given do not work program seems stuck on none no matter what choice I use. If this is the wrong place for this tell me where to put this concern

got it ty for giving the imaginative side of my brain (it was smoking) a work out happy holidays

COME on all take advantage of rare opportunity to play against some of best players in the freaking WORLD. This weekend should be especially good since JEC will probably be bloated with imps after slaughtering me in the morning session so they will probably be sluggish.(sigh)

PASS yeah yeah yellow belly coward -- ostrich I've heard them all. I have even managed to bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak a few times when I made a pass like this at the table. What the heck do we expect to gain by bidding ANY number of clubs. It seems to me all any club bid will do is encourage the opps to reach a game they might otherwise miss. They should have around 22 HCp max so they seem slated to stop in a partial somewhere UNLESS a short club encourages lho to get a bit feisty and they then proceed to bid a probably easily making game (3n 4s heck 5d). Another problem is that irritating 1n bid BEHIND p. That means p hcp are worth probably close to half their normal value AND since rho looks like they have a balanced hand the odds in favor of rho holding 3+ clubs has risen considerably which means going for a number has risen considerably. I hear so many complaining the opps might actually land in the right strain and we lose a part score battle (this does not scare me one whit). What scares me is the possibility we get hammered in clubs vs the opps actually making only a partial. Can we shut partner UP? what if they have no sense of humor about our 3c bid and do something not realizing just how decrepit (though long) our club suit is. There they are looking at aces and a couple of clubs and you can see them wondering if they should gamble 3n. If you can picture this then you might get a good example of what 3c should look like AQJTxx (at these colors).

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What happens if you merely bid 3h vs taking control? I realize it becomes partnership dependent now but try to avoid using a tool that will most likely not give you the information you need. You have no idea how strong/weak opener is at any time during the bidding and it is indeed unfortunate opener is near minimum. Don't beat yourself up too much but try and avoid grand slams w/o some clear idea on just how you intend to make it. over 3h maybe p can show a second suit or bid 3n to show [extra (now going to 4n would seem right) values].

The concept here is we have NO CLUE how many controls opener has when they rebid 1n and no simple way to find out. The next best thing is to try and show where ten (+)of our cards are located (!H !C) and let p decide if they have a slammish hand or not. The bidding we are going to describe uses something called the Principle Of Fast Arrival (POFA). POFA essentially means when you know where you are going go directly there. If you go slowly somewhere it shows extra values. 1d 1h 1n 3c* How the bidding proceeds depends on what opener bids next. If opener cannot bid 3n our hand becomes much better mainly because opener has limited "wasted" power in one of our singletons. For the time being we will assume opener bids 3n. We still have no idea if they hold Axx Jx Axxxx QJx it would be super superb and we would have 13 tricks off the top. If opener holds KQJ xx KQJx Qxx. Now the 5 level could be in jeopardy (if you were to explore for slam) if !H split poorly. 3n 4h NOW the reason for the bidding has been revealed. By bidding 3c first THEN going to 4h responder has used the Principle of Fast Arrival by SLOWLY arriving at 4H. Responder could easily have jumped to 4h earlier in the bidding but by choosing to go slowly they have shown extra values. Responder is asking opener to look at their hand (in context of the bidding) and decide if it looks slammish or not. The !S and !D ace are superb values along with anything located in !H/!C. Opener makes the next decision go or no go.