Hey Pete! Can you elaborate a bit more why a small heart pitch on trick 1 of board 8 (26:32) would be revealing and as a follow-up question, why is the subsequent heart pitch on trick 2 not as revealing? Thanks in advance
Hello and thank you for another insightful week of hands. I'd like to ask where I can get the suit-play program. I'd love to run some difficult suit combinations through it. Also regarding the last hand, I would like it if you could do a video on your thinking process of when to leave in a take-out double for penalties. I tend to be a bit analytical as to when and if to leave it in. I haven't seen this subject discussed very often and many players seem to have trouble identifying what to look for. Thanks again
Board 1: Same. Board 2: Same contract, but I gave up an extra trick for 50%. Board 3: Same. Board 4: Same. Board 5: Same contract, but managed to make. Defense started with 3 rounds of diamonds after I played the DT on the first trick (for no particular reason), so it played out very differently. 57% Board 6: I overcalled 1D, they get into the auction with Hs and I ended up defending 3HX-1 for 64%. I think I bid this one too conservatively. I like the explained logic for a 1NT overcall. Board 7: I made the “normal” 1H opening and played in 2H, going down 1 for 60%. Board 8: Same. Bidding 3NT seemed very “agricultural” and unilateral, but nothing else seemed sensible. A slightly lower 61% overall. Not a particularly exciting set of boards, but as an intermediate player who knows he won’t play the hands quite as well as you do, I am always happy when I end up in the same contracts as you. Here, I did this on 6 out of 8 hands, so I’m happy enough, and I even (unusually) managed to do better on one of the hands in which I ended up in a different spot. Anyway, thanks as ever for posting these. They are very educational.
Hey Pete! Can you elaborate a bit more why a small heart pitch on trick 1 of board 8 (26:32) would be revealing and as a follow-up question, why is the subsequent heart pitch on trick 2 not as revealing? Thanks in advance
Hello and thank you for another insightful week of hands.
I'd like to ask where I can get the suit-play program. I'd love to run some difficult suit combinations through it. Also regarding the last hand, I would like it if you could do a video on your thinking process of when to leave in a take-out double for penalties. I tend to be a bit analytical as to when and if to leave it in. I haven't seen this subject discussed very often and many players seem to have trouble identifying what to look for.
Thanks again
home.planet.nl/~narcis45/suitplay/
tricky subject to cover but I'll see what I can do.
Board 1: Same.
Board 2: Same contract, but I gave up an extra trick for 50%.
Board 3: Same.
Board 4: Same.
Board 5: Same contract, but managed to make. Defense started with 3 rounds of diamonds after I played the DT on the first trick (for no particular reason), so it played out very differently. 57%
Board 6: I overcalled 1D, they get into the auction with Hs and I ended up defending 3HX-1 for 64%. I think I bid this one too conservatively. I like the explained logic for a 1NT overcall.
Board 7: I made the “normal” 1H opening and played in 2H, going down 1 for 60%.
Board 8: Same. Bidding 3NT seemed very “agricultural” and unilateral, but nothing else seemed sensible.
A slightly lower 61% overall.
Not a particularly exciting set of boards, but as an intermediate player who knows he won’t play the hands quite as well as you do, I am always happy when I end up in the same contracts as you. Here, I did this on 6 out of 8 hands, so I’m happy enough, and I even (unusually) managed to do better on one of the hands in which I ended up in a different spot. Anyway, thanks as ever for posting these. They are very educational.
Thanks Paul. Nice set.
1NT is a silly, only-because-you're-playing-vs-stupid-bots bid.