I really enjoyed looking over your shoulder as you discussed these deals. It also gave me a look at how I might have done vs. an expert.
But I wonder how much help you are getting from this analysis. After discussing the deal, it seems like there is no opportunity for follow-up. Can you get more learning if you make note of all of the deals where you didn’t do as well as you should have. Maybe look for trends on where you can improve your game. Look for situations where the opponents bidding hurt you and maybe you can tweak your system. Look for situations where there are holes in your bidding system. Are you being too aggressive or not aggressive enough. I think you’ve done a good job analyzing the deals but maybe more could be done to learn from your analysis.
That was my thought as well. When I go over things with partner, we're usually talking over things like "what would you do with my hand" or "is there any way I could have gotten that right" or "what did you mean when you carded this way" or "If I had made this other bid I was considering, how would you have taken it". Story time is fun, but ultimately doesn't appear as productive. Although I'm not sure how it would effect things if I were 1) producing a video for popular consumption and 2) doing a post mortem 2 months after the event.
You do, what I had exactly on my mind for years. BUT you need t I m e for it but then(other than in Chess) the mildly over average gifted player has good chances at Bridge-Mainly because the training efforts of almost all players are the lowest in comparisio to Every other competitive activity. 5th League Players at table tennis Volleyball etc. do a Full program of exercise
#18 -100 isn t there If you discard they cash a Diamond give you a ruff and discard and then duck the a of spades til the short hand is exhausted and then another heart sets up the 5th Trick-alernatively a Club Ruff:-)
#19 After 1H P 1S (2C) 4D is a transfersplinter for us
4h is VKCB 4S showing the void then 4NT further RKCB
#23 Think that EAST must do the asking as he knows much more about the hand Systemically easier for us using polish club 1d 1S 3c(15-18 5/5) 3H 3nt 4d RKCB 4S 03 4nt Sign off Zero q ask(superfluous)5c (3 no q of trumps) 5h 5s (no s King) 6c 6h(h King no Club King) ,7d which is not that good as it seems 3-1 dia forces decisions
Its funny, the board you spent half a second on, 25, seemed like an interesting problem to me when I played it. I had the west hand, and playing a short club with transfers, south opened 1C. I thought about it. 1D seemed like the book bid, but it gave easy access to both majors for the opponents, and I didn't want to preempt with partner an unpassed hand. Eventually I decided to semi-psych 1N, hoping to get doubled, and figuring I could handle most follow up auctions (both transfers, at least, or a garbage stayman hand I had plans for). Partner used stayman and smolen to put us in game, and the spotlight hit the N player...who led a diamond. After I gave up the diamond, they didn't find cashing 4 heart tricks, so I was just in, for one of our few wins that first session (we got EVERY guess wrong at our table, and in that same good but tight 6H, they found the blind spade lead from the J9x)
On #14 after the CA lead I think a diamond shift and diamond continuation after winning the SA works.
Nice catch, looks right to me
Also on the HQ lead I think West can be squeezed
On #18 does DDS say you can hold it to down one?
I really enjoyed looking over your shoulder as you discussed these deals. It also gave me a look at how I might have done vs. an expert.
But I wonder how much help you are getting from this analysis. After discussing the deal, it seems like there is no opportunity for follow-up. Can you get more learning if you make note of all of the deals where you didn’t do as well as you should have. Maybe look for trends on where you can improve your game. Look for situations where the opponents bidding hurt you and maybe you can tweak your system. Look for situations where there are holes in your bidding system. Are you being too aggressive or not aggressive enough. I think you’ve done a good job analyzing the deals but maybe more could be done to learn from your analysis.
That was my thought as well. When I go over things with partner, we're usually talking over things like "what would you do with my hand" or "is there any way I could have gotten that right" or "what did you mean when you carded this way" or "If I had made this other bid I was considering, how would you have taken it". Story time is fun, but ultimately doesn't appear as productive. Although I'm not sure how it would effect things if I were 1) producing a video for popular consumption and 2) doing a post mortem 2 months after the event.
Hi great stuff!
You do, what I had exactly on my mind for years. BUT you need t I m e for it but then(other than in Chess) the mildly over average gifted player has good chances at Bridge-Mainly because the training efforts of almost all players are the lowest in comparisio to Every other competitive activity. 5th League Players at table tennis Volleyball etc. do a Full program of exercise
#18 -100 isn t there If you discard they cash a Diamond give you a ruff and discard and then duck the a of spades til the short hand is exhausted and then another heart sets up the 5th Trick-alernatively a Club Ruff:-)
#19 After 1H P 1S (2C) 4D is a transfersplinter for us
4h is VKCB 4S showing the void then 4NT further RKCB
#23 Think that EAST must do the asking as he knows much more about the hand Systemically easier for us using polish club 1d 1S 3c(15-18 5/5) 3H 3nt 4d RKCB 4S 03 4nt Sign off Zero q ask(superfluous)5c (3 no q of trumps) 5h 5s (no s King) 6c 6h(h King no Club King) ,7d which is not that good as it seems 3-1 dia forces decisions
Its funny, the board you spent half a second on, 25, seemed like an interesting problem to me when I played it. I had the west hand, and playing a short club with transfers, south opened 1C. I thought about it. 1D seemed like the book bid, but it gave easy access to both majors for the opponents, and I didn't want to preempt with partner an unpassed hand. Eventually I decided to semi-psych 1N, hoping to get doubled, and figuring I could handle most follow up auctions (both transfers, at least, or a garbage stayman hand I had plans for). Partner used stayman and smolen to put us in game, and the spotlight hit the N player...who led a diamond. After I gave up the diamond, they didn't find cashing 4 heart tricks, so I was just in, for one of our few wins that first session (we got EVERY guess wrong at our table, and in that same good but tight 6H, they found the blind spade lead from the J9x)