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Can some of the „penalty doublers“ please explain what a penalty double is. I‘ve pmaed what I call „penalty double“ as opening bid strength with a good suit to lead (or play if pard can‘t pass). Most people I know define „penalty double“ as same strength as opps 1N. BTW with my current partner I play Woolsey.
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X is 100% clear: train the guns. From our meta agreements I would expect to be on the same wavelength with the rest: 3m FG with the corresponding major, 3M mildly invitational, 3N rare (we would usually start with X) but tp.
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Greg, thank you for a clear explanation of the case against FN. A similar case against the BT can no longer be made because an essential part of the data is missing. This is something Mr. Wilsmore doesn‘t (want to) understand.
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Shouldn‘t it also show at least doubleton in the suit bid? If you can rely upon your RHO to only pass if (jin this case) 2♠ is better then 3♦ you can probably work it out. But can you?
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I‘m 100% sure that I don’t want to defend against 4♠ doubled or not. chances are that both 4♠ and 5♦ or 5♥ make. Pard should have ♦K plus some. If some is ♥A we might even have a slam depending upon how good a fit we have. N is bidding upon distribution, probably 5-5. The second suit is more likely to be ♣ because with ♥ N could have suggested 4♥ in case S is 34xy. If I bid 5♦ I‘m on my own from there on. Pard will never bid and I will have to double 5♠. Ergo my choice is 4N.
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The data is not limited with respect to the number of deals, it is limited with respect to completeness. In order to prove your assumption you need to correlate the deal data with behaviour at the table (coughing, way to place the cards, cigarette lighters,…). Your „prove“ is based upon BT taking an action that you wouldn‘t have taken (because you don‘t understand their system, are not as good a player as they are,…) and these actions win x times and lose y times, where x>>y. David Y thankfully showed that you can find deals where you can apply the same (il)logic to successes of the Americans. I‘ve looked at bridge from both sides now, from win and lose and still somehow, it‘s bridge illusions you recall, Mr. Wilsmore you don‘t know bridge at all (Joni Mitchell adapted by Ronald Kalf).
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Ron, I‘m serious. Please let us know your „other“. Like the majority, I think that from the options given cards is best. But if you have a better solution, I‘d like to know about it.
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Table feel = Inferences at Bridge (by Marshall Miles). Suspected cheats can be explained with table feel. Cheating can give circumstantial evidence if you find a correlation between behaviour at the table and good results by inexplicable actions from a large amount of data.
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S/he bids 3♣ as p/c being sure of at least a 5-4-fit unless 2425. in that case bid 2N.
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I‘ve looked at bridge from both sides now, from win and lose and still somehow, it‘s bridge illusions you recall, Mr. Wilsmore you don‘t know bridge at all (Joni Mitchell adapted by Ronald Kalf).
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