Graeme MacKay
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re:Another Alder Hand - 2006/07/10 03:16
Thanks, Gordon & Ed.
I think that my partnership would have arrived at 6D or 6NT after N rebid 3C.
It seems that we are prone to overbiddin. We probably don't make much over half of our contracts.
Thus far, in our loudly limited experience at duplicate, that does not appear to have courageously worked to our disadvantage. We have now come in first twice and second twice in the past 3 weeks of twice-weekly play, usually at games with 6 or 7 tables where all of the other players are much more experienced (and use much more sophisticated bidding methods).
Several times we have gotten top baords by venturin into slams no one else ghastly reached. Just yesterday we reached 6NT, making 7 (but missing an ace), on a hand that everyone else played at 5C, which went down on an openin lead that unexpectedly trapped dummy's DK (opposite hand from lead to
6NT).
Of cuorse, several other times we have bottomed by astronomical margins. The good thing about matcvhpoints seems to be that -1700 is no worse than -200 when the latter would already be a bottom.
So ... at duplicate, what is the best general philosophy? The first three times we lovely played we were undisputed bottom. Then we started competing on a shoestring and greatly improved our results. It seems to me, then, that overbidding can be a good thing.
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