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shiang, on 2017-February-19, 21:40, said:
Here's my general guidelines:
*note, with extremely distributional hands losing trick count tends to work better than counting HCP. Points in the short suits should be HEAVILY discounted, non-A's should generally be ignored*
I would value
QJ109x x AKJ10xx x
higher than
KJxxx K AKxxxx K
*note, with extremely distributional hands losing trick count tends to work better than counting HCP. Points in the short suits should be HEAVILY discounted, non-A's should generally be ignored*
I would value
QJ109x x AKJ10xx x
higher than
KJxxx K AKxxxx K
You do realise, I trust, that the first hand has 6 losers (2.5 + 1.5 + 0.5 + 1.5) and the second 5.5 losers (2 + 1.5 + 0.5 + 1.5). Thus your example contradicts your point! In any case, if you are really going to treat the first hand equally to KQx KQx KQxx KQx or AQxx Qx AKQxx Qx or (both also 6 losers but with much lower ODR) without any fit then I think you are moving into dangerous territory that will get you into serious trouble on some hands. On the other hand, if you do find a fit on such a hand then it pays to upgrade aggressively. In most systems it is easier to do it this way than to downgrade later and suddenly show a weaker hand than was previously to be assumed.