I am reminded of the time back when I would play regularly, and of the players who would go crazy and yell after a hand like this, trying to tell their partner that they messed up, as though there was a "correct" way to bid this. Surely, after the fact you can try to rationalize that they should have bid such and such, but it is intellectually dishonest.
I know one guy like this who has destroyed a close friendship and a relationship by being this way. I have absolutely no use for these people, and they can rot for all I care; I will never play again with someone who will yell at me over bridge (constructive criticism, obviously, is always welcome).
It is not merely yelling over bridge; it is yelling over bridge in a hand like the one David describes above pretending a posteriori that you should have been able to learn which hand they had.
Normally, those two situations are equivalent. And half the time, you can often tell them that you would have been able to figure it out if only they had described their hand better in the bidding.
holding the west hand on the precision auction 1C - 5D - P, i don't think i'm finding 6H either. when the hand is worth 2C in standard, getting that bid out there puts the standard players at an advantage. gotta take your tradeoffs.
stupid computer-generated hands... :-)
we had tons of precision-friendly hands in our matches. every time we watched our opponents struggle to show their ranges, we knew our teammates were coming back with a better contract.
True: East had the opportunity of showing a king by passing, which pushed west over the top (because it's quite likely that it's the king of clubs which she desperately needs).
This was on Sunday, so we actually dealt this one. :-)
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I am reminded of the time back when I would play regularly, and of the players who would go crazy and yell after a hand like this, trying to tell their partner that they messed up, as though there was a "correct" way to bid this. Surely, after the fact you can try to rationalize that they should have bid such and such, but it is intellectually dishonest.
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stupid computer-generated hands... :-)
we had tons of precision-friendly hands in our matches. every time we watched our opponents struggle to show their ranges, we knew our teammates were coming back with a better contract.
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This was on Sunday, so we actually dealt this one. :-)
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