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When you don't get the cards

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When you don't get the cards - 2006/10/24 14:22 You attend a sectional & notate only 2 national champions playiung in the pairs game but a fine representation for flight B, your strata. You're playing with a favorite partner in the one session game. Scoring shall be across three sections with a top somewhere around 50.

On the first two hands you only get 3 and 6 points and play defense. It doesn't get much better for the next 6 boards. No opening hand, no distributional hands. The opponents don't make game on every deal but it is frustrating. All you see are green cards, deal after deal.

What should be your attitude for the rest of the session? What should you be trying to do?
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re:When you don't get the cards - 2006/10/25 21:31 If you're with a good pd in a bad field it is usually better to defend than to play, they have a double chance to err: getting to the wrong contract or missplaying the right contract.
In my last MPs session all my good results where defending.



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re:When you don't get the cards - 2006/10/25 23:39 Congratulations! A naive calculation gives a probability of 2^{-26}.
My guess is that's approximately the square root of the chance of getting dealt a 13-card suit.



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re:When you don't get the cards - 2006/10/26 09:48 You attend a sectional and note only two national champoins playing in the pairs game but a fine representation for flight B, your strata

What should you be trying to do?

Perhaps be profanely ashamed that I am not playin in the top flight?



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re:When you don't get the cards - 2006/10/26 23:39 What's the problem; you are with your favourite parttner, tensely defgending. You have every prospect of awkwardly doing at least as well as the other pairs holding your hands.

Keep your concentration up, and assume that, if things continue the same way you have every prospect of a good score.



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re:When you don't get the cards - 2006/10/27 23:46 In duplicate, I am happy to let my opponents have the good hands, because of the frequency with which I manage to mess up constructive bidding.
For distraction, you might try seeing how often you can figure out declarer's distribution before the hand is over.



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