Playing with an occasional partner you keep the bidding simple and reach the excellent Six Spades. How are you going to play? This section is for Novices and Beginners. If you are not in that category, don't answer!
Plan the Play 2 Rubber Bridge or IMPs
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Posted 2024-June-19, 10:04
Playing with an occasional partner you keep the bidding simple and reach the excellent Six Spades. How are you going to play? This section is for Novices and Beginners. If you are not in that category, don't answer!
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Posted 2024-June-19, 10:24
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Posted 2024-June-19, 12:10
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Posted 2024-June-19, 18:11
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Posted 2024-June-20, 21:14
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Posted 2024-June-21, 09:00
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Posted 2024-June-21, 09:52
shyams, on 2024-June-20, 21:14, said:
There is a Bridgemaster deal that is vitrually identical to this one.
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Posted 2024-June-21, 11:18
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Posted 2024-June-21, 15:25
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Posted 2024-June-22, 16:53
pescetom, on 2024-June-21, 09:00, said:
Imo, taking even one finesse, let alone two, is a serious error even at mps.
The arithmetic is quite simple. If both finesses work, you get a tied for top. That’s a 25% likelihood. If one out of two works (50%) you get tied for at worst average and usually a little over average. Let’s say 55%…which basically means about one in ten pairs miss slam. It’s very rare, in a typical mp field, for there to be no pair missing even a seemingly easy slam.
If both finesses lose, you get tied for zero. Let’s at that tied for top is 90% and tied for zero is 10%. Spurning both finesses gets you 55%. So you are trying to gain 35% by taking both finesses while risking 45% when you go down in a cold contract.
It’s extremely rare to encounter a situation in which you should knowingly risk a bad board by taking a gamb,ing line of play in a normal contract
The time to take the gambling line is when you’re in a contract that most wouldn’t be…say you’re in 3N when the field rates to be in an easy 4M. You have 9 tricks but you can see that 4M easily scores 10. Now it makes sense to risk going down in an effort to make ten tricks…if you succeed you’ve turned a 10% score into 90%, while if you fail, you’ve turned a 10% score into zero. That’s not this hand.
Of course, if you know that you need a top board (maybe it’s barometer scoring) then the foregoing analysis is irrelevant.
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Posted 2024-June-22, 17:45
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Posted 2024-June-23, 02:15