Kenny McCormack wrote:
> In article <48203eef$0$31741$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Bob Lipton <boblipton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Bill Jacobs wrote:
>>> gazelle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Kenny McCormack) wrote in
>>> news:fvn280$k03$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>>> In article
>>>> <6fca16e4-defb-404c-98c4-50fa9f809daa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>> Eric Leong <ewleongusa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>> On May 4, 12:51 pm, gaze...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Kenny McCormack)
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Standard-ish methods, IMPs. You hold: AKxxx,Axxx,x,KQx
>>>>>> You open 1S, pd bid 2H (opps silent).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Your bid?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Think about how little it takes for slam. How to proceed?
>>>>> There is no question about reaching at least 6H unless in the very
>>>>> unlikely case you are missing a key card and the trump queen.
>>>> I think a lot of you are assuming 2/1. This is not standard.
>>>>
>>>> How about:
>>>>
>>>> x
>>>> Jxxxx
>>>> KQJx
>>>> Axx
>>>>
>>>> Even 4 could go down. Especially on BBO (always keep that in mind).
>>>>
>>> What are you angling for?
>>>
>>> When someone suggests a good scientific bid, eg 3H or 4D, you tell us
that
>>> partner is not up to understanding that,
>>>
>>> When someone suggests a good unscientific bid, eg 4NT, you list an
unlikely
>>> hand that makes that a poor choice. (Although even with your example
hand,
>>> 5H could easily survive.)
>>>
>>> It seems that nothing will satisfy you.
>
> Just trying to keep the debate going...
>
>> Greed and fear, greed and fear, that's what's driving him here, just
>> like the people in the stock market, greed for the slam and fear that 4
>> will go down. And, as I remarked to Henry Sun on another thread, it's
>> all chimeras. Guess wrong and what will happen? They will come and
take
>> your aged mother away? Your girlfriend will leave you for having such
a
>> small *****? Agents of FEMA will seize you foruse in stem-cell
research?
>> The sun will go supernova?
>
> All this, and more...
>
>> No. You'll be too low or too high in a bridge contract. It 's not
>> even for money, apparently. So run a few hands that partner might have
>> through your head, take another bid that matches a couple of tem and
>> see what happens.
>
> It seems to me that what you need is good hearts (i.e., at least the KQ)
> and an ace. And there doesn't seem to be any "standard-ish" ways to
> find that out. So, I think if I had it to do over again, I'd just bid
> 6H and hope for the best.
If what I thought was needed in partner's hands was good hearts and an
ace and I wasn't playing RKCB, I'd just bid 5 hearts. If I am playing
RKCB I can ask, so I do.
>
> Incidentally, at the table, pd had KQJxxx and the club ace, but result
> was making 5, due to a(nother) BBO distributional quirk.
People have been complaining about computer dealt hands since they
started using them. Even if the random numbers rograms were glitched,
they're far more random than hand-dealt ones could be.
Bob
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