competing all vul at MPs
#4
Posted 2014-February-04, 11:40
At MP lho always has a tricky decision about raising to four or not when he has a reasonable hand, and basically any time they bid 4S I am happy.
#5
Posted 2014-February-04, 13:09
#6
Posted 2014-February-04, 14:21
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#7
Posted 2014-February-04, 14:47
phil_20686, on 2014-February-04, 11:40, said:
At MP lho always has a tricky decision about raising to four or not when he has a reasonable hand, and basically any time they bid 4S I am happy.
unless, of course, partner, with his stiff spade, decides to bid 5♥. My guess is that this will not usually turn out well
#8
Posted 2014-February-04, 15:12
#9
Posted 2014-February-04, 16:00
Much more tempted to bid at MP than at IMPS where getting slaughtered opposite a part score kind of ticks
partner off. We are in a VERY bad spot. We have not the slightest clue where to play or whose hand it is while
our LHO (very easily the stronger of the opps) has almost all the information they need to make a decision about
the hand. A 4H bid will not change their mind but it adds the possibility of a penalty X to their already vast
array of weapons they can use against us. It is only 1 board but still a bit too rich for my taste but give me the
heart J instead of a small heart and I will risk 4h so I have a ton of sympathy for the 4h bidders.
#10
Posted 2014-February-04, 16:44

#11
Posted 2014-February-04, 16:49
PhilKing, on 2014-February-04, 16:44, said:

Hmm.... it just so happens you deleted the data, eh?
I'm in the passing camp. We will go down opposite a balanced 10 quite often (especially double dummy, which PhilKing's simulations use), LHO might be waiting with a decent hand and a double, and we're going to be in the wrong game every time partner has 3 or 4 hearts and can't bid them. In addition, if partner happens to have a good hand he will push us too high.
#12
Posted 2014-February-04, 17:26
Lord Molyb, on 2014-February-04, 16:49, said:
No we are not. 3N could easily still be the only winning game, if partner's hand is (also) balanced.
In the Friday night duplicate this is an easy 3N, but in real bridge I wouldn't do it. Give me a few minor suit quacks to boost partner's stoppers, and I'll be there.
#13
Posted 2014-February-04, 17:32
Lord Molyb, on 2014-February-04, 16:49, said:
Please don't assume what you have no knowledge of. I don't use DD sims - ever. I am in the camp that believes them to be close to useless in the majority of scenarios.
I generate hands I believe to be consistent with the auction, estimating how the auction and play will go and take it from there. If you want to dismiss that, fine. I doubt I will have time to do another one, since it was quite time consuming.
If you want to do one yourself, go to http://www.playbridge.com and enter the spec. You never know, you might learn something.
#14
Posted 2014-February-04, 17:34
PhilKing, on 2014-February-04, 17:32, said:
I generate hands I believe to be consistent with the auction and take it from there, estimating how the auction and play will go and take it from there. If you want to dismiss that, fine.
whoops, my bad.
#16
Posted 2014-February-05, 04:49
PhilKing, on 2014-February-04, 17:32, said:
I did that, and I learned something. I like 3NT now.
#17
Posted 2014-February-05, 10:24
PhilKing, on 2014-February-04, 17:32, said:
I've generated boards but is there analytics? Can I analyze which contracts make, what the best bids are etc.?
#18
Posted 2014-February-05, 17:37
HighLow21, on 2014-February-05, 10:24, said:
I am not sure how Phil is supposed to know whether you are able to analyse what would happen on any given deal.
#19
Posted 2014-February-06, 09:06
cherdano, on 2014-February-05, 17:37, said:
Of course he knows. Phil has a very realistic HighLow21 simulator

#20
Posted 2014-February-07, 07:01
helene_t, on 2014-February-06, 09:06, said:

And probably a searchable HighLow21 database to go with it.