Bridge players thread

[star mouse]

Originally posted by rah
During his trump run, his opponents sluffed all their hearts down to one each, One had the king, and the other the ace, so when he leads the low heart from his hand, both honors fell. Making his remaining jack good since any return, he could trump with his last trump. Seems quite simple.

Sometimes you have no choice but to give your opponents a chance to shoot themselves. It doesn't work that often, but when it does.........
RAH

That's exactly what happened. The opponents shot themselves in the foot with a high-powered rocket launcher. The play records of the hand showed that the opponent with the Ace still had the 10 in hand as well when he played the Ace, while his partner had the king bare at the time. I guess he was thinking I had a singleton heart and a doubleton diamond honor and wanted the lead so he could lead a diamond through my hand.

This is one of those hands where you have to make your own luck. I did after all have nothing to lose and a lot to gain.

I'm wondering tho, what would have happened had the heart AK being in the same hand?

[star mouse]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
What was the first lead? It sounded like spade. Spade was the wrong suit to lead. Either one of the red suits would have set you.

The lead was a spade. After all, his partner had bid them. Many people would have led a spade on that auction simply to avoid the wrath of a disgruntled partner had the lead turned out wrong.

[Straybow]

Caption: They're still spawning!

Wandering OT for a moment, I notice your sig and your mention of "wrath of a disgruntled partner" spurred me to comment.

None, Sedentary, Roving, Restless, Raging ... damn, is that all? Where's the "massive waves of barbarians that can wipe out your civilisation" setting?

With Civ2 you can add one line to your game.txt and get to choose the "Barbarian Wrath" setting normally available only to scenario designers. I wanted to show the effect to my brothers this Xmas, so I started a game on that setting. I tried counting the number of units spawned, but then a second revolt spawned which made things a little difficult. (I added a highlight over both spawn centers)

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by star mouse
The lead was a spade. After all, his partner had bid them. Many people would have led a spade on that auction simply to avoid the wrath of a disgruntled partner had the lead turned out wrong.

Not the way the bid went. Clearly the 5 club was a gambling (I haven't seen it bid that high though) bid that showed lots of clubs but not much else. The declarer might even be out of spades. A spade lead could give him a free finesse of your partner. Very, very, bad.

[Urban Ranger]

Re: Caption: They're still spawning!

Originally posted by Straybow
I wanted to show the effect to my brothers this Xmas, so I started a game on that setting. I tried counting the number of units spawned, but then a second revolt spawned which made things a little difficult. (I added a highlight over both spawn centers)

Yikes! Did you get killed?

[star mouse]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Not the way the bid went. Clearly the 5 club was a gambling (I haven't seen it bid that high though) bid that showed lots of clubs but not much else. The declarer might even be out of spades. A spade lead could give him a free finesse of your partner. Very, very, bad.

By 'gambling' you mean a pre-empt? I had nine solid clubs, so I bid two more than I thought I could make, risking the loss of no more than 500 points if doubled. At the time I thought it a quite a routine bid on my hand given it was on OKBridge.

I also have to say it's probable that they had never defended a 5-level pre-empt before, after all I had never declared one before! And I must say it's a lot of fun ...

[TCO]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Easily.

Suppose you have 3 spades, 4 hearts, 2 diamonds and 4 clubs with 13HCP. Your partner has 4 spades, 4 hearts, 4 diamonds and 1 club.

So the bidding can go 1C-2D-2H-4H. Something like that.

1. That is not the most economical way to show the suits.
2. How do you show the hearts if you only have one bid to make (6-9 points)
3. Most people play a jumpshift as strong. Since the new suit is single round forcing anyway.

[Bird]

This thread is scary. But I'm drunk.

[TCO]

Good for you.

[star mouse]

Re: Caption: They're still spawning!

Originally posted by Straybow
Wandering OT for a moment, I notice your sig and your mention of "wrath of a disgruntled partner" spurred me to comment.

None, Sedentary, Roving, Restless, Raging ... damn, is that all? Where's the "massive waves of barbarians that can wipe out your civilisation" setting?

With Civ2 you can add one line to your game.txt and get to choose the "Barbarian Wrath" setting normally available only to scenario designers.

I think you found the "massive waves of barbarians" setting. And judging by all the red cities, they were definitely wiping out your civilization.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by star mouse
By 'gambling' you mean a pre-empt? I had nine solid clubs, so I bid two more than I thought I could make, risking the loss of no more than 500 points if doubled. At the time I thought it a quite a routine bid on my hand given it was on OKBridge.

Sort of like a pre-empt, but you had more points for a pre-empt so you were betting on certain cards at the right places. It helps when your opponents did the wrong thing, too.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by GP
1. That is not the most economical way to show the suits.
2. How do you show the hearts if you only have one bid to make (6-9 points)
3. Most people play a jumpshift as strong. Since the new suit is single round forcing anyway.

1. Economy is situation dependent. Doing this eliminates ambiguity. If you bid a 4-card major, your partner can't tell if you have only 4, or you have more. Bidding a minor helps to keep it low.

2. Okay, how do you show a 5+ card suit with 6-9 points with your bidding system?

3. That's just an example. You could assume it a 1D, or whatever.

[rah]

Of course the real question is....
Are there enough Bridge players at apolyton to get a few games going? Even going to a site to play, it's more fun if you know(somewhat anyway) the people you're playing with. And it always means more bragging material. I don't think we need to do anything elaborate like a ranking system, just some games for fun.

I'd be interested.

RAH
I'm sure I could suck ming into being my partner.
Maybe on a late saturday evening.

[Scouse Gits]

... and I, but late Saturday translates into ungodly hours of a Sunday morning in real time doesn't it?

SG[1]

[rah]

hmmmmm, +6 over us, YEP.
Maybe we'll have to figure out a different time. hahahaha