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Impure takeout doubles

#21 User is offline   gnasher 

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Posted 2011-April-05, 16:25

View PostMrAce, on 2011-April-05, 14:17, said:

I am fairly new to the forums still, but i know Andy is a very decent player, i won't call his first DBL "Horrible" to be honest.


Anyone that thinks one of my calls is horrible is welcome to say so. And I should point out that forum postings are by far the best part of my game.
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Posted 2011-April-05, 17:51

View Postbenlessard, on 2011-April-05, 05:25, said:

first X is horrible by all standard. 4Nt at favorable is near automatic.

2nd board is normal result.


I think the second double is horrible and the first is ok, (just).
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Posted 2011-April-05, 19:17

View Postgnasher, on 2011-April-05, 16:25, said:

Anyone that thinks one of my calls is horrible is welcome to say so. And I should point out that forum postings are by far the best part of my game.

I doubt that. I suspect the only real issue is what type of partner you should seek out.
The choices are: a National champ with the same ideas as yours, who believes partner with two places to play at favorable should anticipate an "imperfect" double and just dummy up --vs. an (IMO) soon-to-be champ who thinks partner should believe that the T/O double is more likely to be different than this one.
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Posted 2011-April-06, 00:46

That's funny. I'm ok with the first dbl but not with the second. If you're gonna dbl light or off-shape, you better have 4 in the unbid major(s), no?
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