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Hamman's Rule?

#21 User is offline   kenrexford 

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Posted 2006-September-13, 13:58

Free, on Sep 13 2006, 01:46 PM, said:

Question: what is Hamman's rule exactly?

"When three notrump is one of the alternatives, choose it."

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Posted 2006-September-13, 14:06

kenrexford, on Sep 13 2006, 10:58 PM, said:

Free, on Sep 13 2006, 01:46 PM, said:

Question: what is Hamman's rule exactly?

"When three notrump is one of the alternatives, choose it."

-Bridge World

Now I'm confused...

I always thought that Hamman's Rule had to do with the meaning assigned to a 3NT bid - more specifically, that this should be treated as natural in almost all circumstances...

I think that I remember some quote like 3NT ends all auctions
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Posted 2006-September-13, 14:21

hrothgar, on Sep 13 2006, 03:06 PM, said:

kenrexford, on Sep 13 2006, 10:58 PM, said:

Free, on Sep 13 2006, 01:46 PM, said:

Question: what is Hamman's rule exactly?

"When three notrump is one of the alternatives, choose it."

-Bridge World

Now I'm confused...

I always thought that Hamman's Rule had to do with the maning assigned to a 3NT - more specifically, that this should be treated as natural in almost all circumstances...

No Hamman's rule was quoted correctly, of course it assumes that the meaning of the bid 3N was a suggestion to play in the contract 3N.

In any case this is a clear 4D bid, give partner a perfect minimum for his bidding (say a 1444 16 count) and you can only make 4D (and maybe not even that), so there is no point bidding 5. On a bad day partner has:
Qx AJxxx AJx AQx
and you will be lucky to go down only 1 in 4D.

Passing is way too swingy, opposite x Axxx AJxx AKxx
you will be very lucky if you can cash 2 clubs and 2 diamonds.

Perhaps if
a. the opps are vul at mps
b. they are crazy
c. but they are good card players (so playing in a normal contract doesn't give you good mp odds just from the possibility that they will misdefend)
then you might consider pass.
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Posted 2006-September-13, 15:22

hrothgar, on Sep 13 2006, 10:06 PM, said:

kenrexford, on Sep 13 2006, 10:58 PM, said:

Free, on Sep 13 2006, 01:46 PM, said:

Question: what is Hamman's rule exactly?

"When three notrump is one of the alternatives, choose it."

-Bridge World

Now I'm confused...

I always thought that Hamman's Rule had to do with the meaning assigned to a 3NT bid - more specifically, that this should be treated as natural in almost all circumstances...

I think that I remember some quote like 3NT ends all auctions

"3N is natural" doesn't need a rule, it's just obvious -- for most of us B)
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Posted 2006-September-14, 03:03

Hamman had 6 rules. The "If 3NT is among the alternatives, bid it." is rule #3, I believe :)

There's another one I personally like: "If it looks like the deck has 50 points, trust your opps, not Bob!"
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Posted 2006-September-14, 06:24

3NT is to play.
It doesnt promiss 8 pnts or anything like that, it just hope this is the best spot maybe trying to get out without a double.
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Posted 2006-September-14, 09:49

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Rule 1: If a number of bids are available and one of them is three no-trump, that's the bid. Rule 2: Never play Robert for the perfect hand. He never has it. Rule 3: If everyone at the table seems to be bidding his head off, trust them, not Robert. Rule 4: When contemplating a slam, always subtract a king from what it sounds like Robert has before bidding the slam. Rule 5: Be practical. Rule 6: Do the right thing.


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