[JLOGIC]

They did not overruff against levin also

[y66]

Just finished watching USA2 vs Italy. Nice playing USA2! Going into work now.

[Fluffy]

yeah they played pretty well, if they didn't lose 18-19 IMPs for not playing 4M instead of 3NT all the time...

[pooltuna]

iviehoff, on 2011-October-18, 01:46, said:

I was surprised to see that in the two USA1 v USA2 matches, this hand ♠5 ♥J85432 ♦A65 ♣Q63 as dealer NV v V was passed twice. Jlogic was one of the passers. Should I be surprised?

no you should not be surprised he was dealer not 3rd seat with 2 passes to him

[JLOGIC]

Fluffy, on 2011-October-18, 07:49, said:

yeah they played pretty well, if they didn't lose 18-19 IMPs for not playing 4M instead of 3NT all the time...

lol, the hand Fluffy is talking about I had AT 98xx xxx JT8x. It went 2N p and I bid 3N. I would do it again, it is just a philosophy I guess, it does add some randomness I guess but I have been that way my whole life, and think it's a winner.

[BunnyGo]

JLOGIC, on 2011-October-18, 05:17, said:

They did not overruff against levin also

interesting, the vugraph had them ruffing the club finesse and leading a heart.

I was curious why the declarers didn't give up a spade right away instead of leaving the 9 outstanding.

[BunnyGo]

Wow, this hand was great:

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This wasn't the auction, but with Justin declarer, and this was the play to the first tricks. I think that double dummy there's a double winkle here (at least I think that's what it's called) to make. South has to overtake the heart and lead another (sadly Justin didn't overtake the heart here, I thankfully had the easier time of seeing this double dummy and with GIB). Notice that both players have to hold onto 2 spades (or else he might be able to drop the Q or pin the T) and so they'll both be threatened with being endplayed in diamonds.

The other table was played by north, and the defense had an easier time.

[JLOGIC]

I ***** *****ed up the most beautiful ***** position, where I knew the whole hand at trick 2 and what I was going to do, I went through all the hard parts and then ***** blocked myself and was in the wrong hand. ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****

[JLOGIC]

I am so ***** angry with myself, it would be one thing if I didn't even see what was going on but it's like a book hand and I saw it and I ***** up the easy part??? WOW

[BunnyGo]

Sorry man. Didn't mean to step on the life tilt. It's a pretty hand, but I'd rather miss it and be in fourth than make it and be in 10th. Keep it up, it's been great watching you so far.

[JLOGIC]

Those are not my 2 options. Also I didn't even see you posted the hand, I just came here and posted that lol.

[Aberlour10]

JLOGIC, on 2011-October-18, 11:56, said:

I ***** *****ed up the most beautiful ***** position, where I knew the whole hand at trick 2 and what I was going to do, I went through all the hard parts and then ***** blocked myself and was in the wrong hand. ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****

Polish commentators/experts agreed that this play so far was something for the teaching books, and than.. forget it, you got enough VPs and the ex-juniors from Poland need some too heh:)

[JLOGIC]

Ok I am 90 % off tilt. I actually have never been tilted for that long about a bridge hand lol. Still not 100 % untilted but getting there.

[JLOGIC]

Make that 20 % actually, it's WAVEY tilt.

Seriously I need to play another match to untilt me, I won't be able to sleep.

[Fluffy]

But Grue made 4♠ runnung ♥KQJ pitching ♦K. Only 4 declarers did, and I saw 2 other top tables playing the same a messing the end game, one of them even with biding evidence of where ♠AQ were lieing.

Also 2 more things: First of all you couldn't make the hand double dummy, a trump shift at trick 2 put you down anyway. It was all a defensive mistake you let go.

Also remember that getting carry over against Italy might be worth a lot more than some VPs.

BTW On vugraph you unblocked everything right, then in the endgame the play froze and it ended in 1 down. No clue of what actually happened for you to block.

[JLOGIC]

Jlall vs mikeh next! Unfortunately no vugraph.

[gwnn]

gwnn, on 2011-September-15, 12:41, said:

Iceland will dominate.

[jjbrr]

jlogic is the guest contributor for the championship book. don't miss it!

[JLOGIC]

My writing is bad and I've never met a deadline. I am nervous!

[jjbrr]

JLOGIC, on 2011-October-19, 08:02, said:

My writing is bad, and I've never met a deadline. I am nervous!

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