This excellent article probably won't spark a lot of discussion because there are no questions left. Case closed.

Let me just take the opportunity to thank the author for putting a piece into the huge puzzle of poker wisdom.

yes ty bery much

Thanks. Glad to know it was appreciated.

Tysen

Doesn't seem to print out in color for me - anybody else having this problem?

off topic

1. IMPs. N-S vul.

64 J72 AQ652 874

West....North....East....South
1____Dbl____Pass____1
1____1____Pass____?

Freeman, "...partner has a big one-suited hand
with long spades or a balanced 18-plus points
with only a five-card suit...."

I disagree with this statement. There is a third
and most likely possibility. Pard is 5-3-4-1.
He has the same 11 highs he doubled with. How
else can you find 5-3 in spades with half the
deck.
Therefore 2 is 100 and all other bids
are zero.

jogs

I'm inclined to believe he does have a strong spade hand. With 5-3-4-1, I would usually overcall 1 rather than double. Change it to 5-4-3-1 and double becomes preferable.

Tysen

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I posted my reply on the above forum under
It's your call.

Something's fishy here. What is East's hand like to pass both times? Weak, probably without a huge fit in clubs for partner as no 2 over the 1. What is West's hand like? Who bids 1 here after the dbl? I'd think West should have 6 and 5:hearts: before considering this. With 55 he'd start with hearts and with 54 he wouldn't bid hearts given pass from partner and dbl indicating likely 4 hearts with north. If partner had a balanced or semi-balanced hand with clubs and hearts stopped and 18+ points he should bid nt and not spades. If partner doesn't have those stopped or has a big - but not huge - hand he should bid 1. With a huge hand he should cue bid the opps suit. The south hand actually a pretty good one for the bidding so far as 7 points and 1.5 QT is better than the 0-0 we've promised. I'd say we should bid something and 4 will have a chance if partner is strong, but think 2, or maybe 3, is probably best.

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Please continuation the discussion on this message board.
It's a Yahoo! message board which is mostly only used by me.

I wonder... if 2+2 will ever publish books or articles from Audrey Grant.

I've got a lot of good stuff to write about bridge. I've previously written a number of technical articles on hand evaluation and re-valuation as the bidding progresses. But poker has taken all my time recently and I can't help but thinking that the market for bridge books is pretty small.

Tysen

That's what Mike Lawrence said. When asked why he didn't write more bridge books. Mike said no one buys them.

I recently moved to a new city. Strange enough, I have not found any Poker Rooms yet, but I did find a Bridge Room in a legal unit behind a local strip mall.

My only worry, is the power of collusion aspect in this game.

did you know that Stayman's partner Rapee actually invented the Stayman convention? Stayman wrote about it.

I have no idea how this thread got so off topic, but now that 3 people have PM'd me about bridge stuff that I've written, I'll post it here too if anyone else actually plays a card game other than poker.

The following links are a series of articles I wrote on hand evaluation on RGB.

Part 1 - How shape evaluation changes when partner bids
Part 2 - How honor evaluation changes when partner bids
Part 3 - TSP evaluation, my attempt at an accurate point system
Part 4 - How shape/honor evaluations change when opponents bid

I also ran a "Bidding System Design Contest" a few years ago that many people have said to me was the best thread on RGB they've read. That's here.

Tysen