Post by Lorne AndersonPost by Adam LeaPost by Adam LeaJT863
Q76
8
AJ96
LHO dealer and opens 1NT (12-14). All bids over 1NT are natural. Your call.
Thanks for the responses so far, a tendency to pass with this hand,
which is what I did (we weren't playing two suited overcalls). This is
AQ75
J3
KJT642
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- K942
A9842 KT5
75 AQ93
KT8743 52
JT863
Q76
8
AJ96
N E S W
1NT P 2C
2D 2S P 3C
P 3H AP
3H made 10 tricks for a woeful 2 out of 14 MPs for NS. Again, cards
lying favourably for EW. The traveller was all over the place. Only one
other pair was in a heart contract; 4H-2. Two NS pairs found 3S= and
3S+2. One pair was in 3D-2, one pair in 4CX-3, and one NS pair somehow
ended up in 3C-4 (don't ask!).
Several auctions you have posted have shown very strange decisions - why
on earth did west bid 2C ?
I have seen this from inexperienced players who don't play transfers,
they bid Stayman with a 5 card suit, not appreciating that this only
helps them find a 5-4 fit, not a 5-3 fit.
As for strange decisions, yes it seems that at the two clubs I play at,
people often do odd things, but I seem to get on the wrong side of it
more often than I feel I should (if an action really is poor, it ought
to fail more often than succeed). Since I am the only common factor I
feel I have to take a critical look at my own decisions, hence posting
hands on here and see if I can find any common factor in the replies. I
used to be able to get >55% regularly at club duplicate, but over the
last nine months seem to struggle to even get to 50%, and I cannot put
my finger on what has changed in the last year. Nine months is too long
to write it off as a spell of bad luck or just one of those things. In
addition, the pair of grandmasters playing against the same opponents
and with the same boards don't have much problem getting >60% most of
the time, so if it really was about the randomness of the field, why
aren't they affected?