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2♣ is right, pass now, ♦A

stayman and invite

The grocery store is having a sale on meat or something. I bought 9 lbs of pork shoulder, 3 lbs of boneless chicken thighs, and some sirloin steaks. Gonna rage some pulled pork tomorrow in the slow cooker. Any ideas for the boneless chicken thighs?

FP threads tilt me a lot for some reason. The cost of screwing it up is frequently very high and the reward for good agreements is pretty marginal as it is, since you're still guessing a lot of the time anyway.

3♣ wtp

1) Rightly open 1♦ 2) Completely normal 1♠ 3) I would bid 3♥. I don't understand why you expect not more than 4♥; partner could definitely have 5. And now

Well now. Is that so?

hrothgar nailed it.

sure

3♦ LR or better in ♠. I might exclusion 5♥ if things go well Oo

Truer words may or may not have never been spoken.

bleh i don't like pass but that's what I'd do.

happy birthday!

I'd splinter with north and bid 4♣ after 3♠, then pass 5♦

The author of the book that was linked at the beginning of this thread describes his approach to buying houses is to look almost exclusively at beachfront property or property in yuppie, trendy, downtown locations where young-ish professionals can be in the middle of the downtown action but still be able to walk to work. These types of places will generally provide (sometimes substantial) negative cash flows for the first several years, but they will frequently experience enormous appreciation, sometimes doubling in value in ~5 years. I think it's a sound strategy.

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its ok. the others will make sure your share doesnt go to waste!

completely standard

bleh I missed today but judging by this thread it sounded pretty epic. checking it out now!

at my age, I wouldn't care to remember what happened in the previous 15 minutes.

If you ever spend any time reading poker forums and debates about poker rules and laws and such, you know that there are a million different ways to angleshoot to try to win hands that you don't deserve. Things like picking up your hand and moving it towards the muck to induce the winning hand to think the hand is over. If winner mucks too quickly, the law says his hand is dead and the loser wins the pot. Everyone hates the angleshooting jerks who do stuff like this. Technically it is legal, but it completely ruins the game because something innocent like trying to muck quickly to speed up the game gets punished. Any decision that doesn't involve declarer winning trick 13 would make me pretty sick.

takeout dbl

Surely if you buy a house with Section 8 tenants but you yourself would like to live in that house, there must be a (simple) process to get them out. In the case of multi-family residential units, one has a choice of whom to kick out, assuming full occupancy. I hope the process doesn't change too much.

One of the tenants in the house I'm looking at is Section 8. AFAIK it's difficult to raise their rent, and like I said, they're currently paying $200-300 less than their neighbors every month. Which leads to some sort of ethical dilemma. If you decided that you wanted to evict the Section 8 family for whatever reason, what's the best way to go about telling them? :huh:

both N and S have obvious bids at several points in the auction