"Sid" <elsid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:27:25 -0700, "raija d" <mustikka@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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> : On 1NT, you can play both Puppet and Smolen but then you will lose
> Garbage
> : Stayman (much too big a loss, IMO).
>
>
> Marty Bergen advocated the use of 3C as puppet stayman.
>
> Sid
Yes. I play that with one of my partners. The frequency of Puppet over a
strong NT being used, or useful, is VERY low in my experience. So low in
fact that when it finally was used, one of us had forgotten the agreement,
LOL.


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