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Rex Little
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Is Precision still popular where you live, UR? I used to play it when I lived in Mass. in the 70's, but after I moved West I never found anyone else who knew it. Great system, IMO.
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Bird
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South Orange, New Jersey
Jan 1970
time: 00:19
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Defense is without a doubt the hardest thing at which to excel, and it is half the game. One of the reasons it's the hardest thing is because you need to understand good bidding in order to draw the right inferences from the opponents' bidding and you need to understand good declarer play in order to do the same from your opponents' play. So you'll never be a good defender without a sound foundation in bidding and declarer play.
The best way to learn is to analyze the hands afterwards. I have as much fun at the bar afterwards as I do at the table, and not just for the obvious reasons. You LEARN at the bar. You DISCUSS things you've encountered and either reach understandings with your partners about newly encountered situations or you simply learn from the experience of others. I have never been to the bar after a game and not had at least one hand that either included a situation that had never been discussed or which led to recognition of a situation that could arise that had never been discussed.
The important thing about analyzing the hands is to recognize that the best possible result at the table might not be the long term best result. Just because a slam makes if you drop two singleton kings having 9 card fits doesn't mean you shouldn't take the finesse. Sometimes the good players go down and the bad players make the hands.
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Bird
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South Orange, New Jersey
Jan 1970
time: 00:19
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Any bar will do, as long as the beer's cold and the scotch reasonably priced. GP, are you still in Colorado? I'm supposed to be in Denver, arriving Monday night for a Tuesday morning deposition. That could change, but I'll know by Friday. I was planning on sticking around until Thursday to fish, but the fires may change those plans.
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Bird
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South Orange, New Jersey
Jan 1970
time: 00:19
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Hey guys. No bridge lately, not much fun either. Anyway, I'm going to DC in two weeks to play in the Summer Nationals. Just the first (extended) weekend. We'll see what happens.
Hey War4, don't let anyone fool you. Bridge is much more than automated bids and plays. There's a lot of poker involved.
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Bird
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South Orange, New Jersey
Jan 1970
time: 00:19
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We're only playing three days and won't play in any team events. The plan is to play in the life master pairs, which is a 3 day event, with each day reducing the field. If we're out after the first day, we'll play in the red ribbon pairs, which is a two day event that you have to pre-qualify for. We would kind of like to play in that b/c we've never done it before and this will probably be the last one that we can play in, but success in the life master pairs is more prestigious.
Maybe we can have some fun here with some of the hands once I get back.
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