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I typically count a single honor as points OR shortness, not both. If was a spot card, and we agreed on a trump suit, could count shortness to calc whether to bid to game.
I suppose that the way to think of the singleton king is that there is a 67% chance it will fall to the opponents ace, so maybe is worth less than 3 HCP. However, you having the king means that the opponents don't have it. Maybe downgrade it to 2 HCP. If you completely dismiss it and value your hand at 12 HCP instead of 15 HCP, then you are probably subconsciously adding 3 to your opponents to bring the total up to 40 HCP. Which you can't really do. You could say you have 12 of the 37 total HCPs, but that just gets messy. Alternatively, you could promote the Q in that suit to 3 HCP (she becomes the king), the J to 2 and the T to 1.
Graeme, I like playing the 10 hands when you have played them too.. I mostly play the hand 1st and then see how you played it. It is easier when you are playing standard because that is what I play. When you play ACOL we sometimes end up in different bids. This is really fun way to learn and improve, by trying to compete with the teacher!
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I typically count a single honor as points OR shortness, not both. If was a spot card, and we agreed on a trump suit, could count shortness to calc whether to bid to game.
Seems sensible, thanks for sharing.
Hand 7 what happen when South bids 3 C instead of 2 S. Did they still go to 3 NT?
I suppose that the way to think of the singleton king is that there is a 67% chance it will fall to the opponents ace, so maybe is worth less than 3 HCP. However, you having the king means that the opponents don't have it. Maybe downgrade it to 2 HCP. If you completely dismiss it and value your hand at 12 HCP instead of 15 HCP, then you are probably subconsciously adding 3 to your opponents to bring the total up to 40 HCP. Which you can't really do. You could say you have 12 of the 37 total HCPs, but that just gets messy. Alternatively, you could promote the Q in that suit to 3 HCP (she becomes the king), the J to 2 and the T to 1.
Thanks for sharing your ideas. 👍
Graeme, I like playing the 10 hands when you have played them too.. I mostly play the hand 1st and then see how you played it. It is easier when you are playing standard because that is what I play. When you play ACOL we sometimes end up in different bids. This is really fun way to learn and improve, by trying to compete with the teacher!
Nice one, Patricia! I’ll be sure to play Standard sometimes too. Thanks for your support.
Love the speed bridge🎉
Great, let’s do some more. 😀
This is a fun format!
Yeah! The time factor makes it fun, I think.