raija d wrote:
>
> "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,
Funny, because as I mentioned elsewhere in the thread it's our most-used
convention - over a 15-17NT. Just on the odds of distribution, I'd expect
a game-forcing hand over a 15-17NT to show up pretty often. In our case,
my usual partner had arranged a game with someone else, and I tagged along
without a partner, and ended up paired with the director with a sit-out
for
the first round. Kathie mentioned that my wife had asked her how she
deals
with opening NT with a 5-card major, and so in the course of the two-board
sitout explained puppet stayman (using 3C). That was Thursday. The
following day was the start of a sectional tournament. When we met Kathie
and her partner at the table, we promptly got a hand built for Puppet
Stayman, and got it right :-) We haven't looked back.
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