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Particularly if I am excited or nervous I tend to forget to think
Regards
Marianne
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Posted 2007-November-15, 06:38
Does anybody know of a simple rime, letter combination or something that could help me remember to think of all the things I should think of before playing a hand?
Particularly if I am excited or nervous I tend to forget to think
Regards
Marianne
Particularly if I am excited or nervous I tend to forget to think
Regards
Marianne
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Posted 2007-November-15, 06:46
I'd like one also. So far, all I have been using is:
No-bo-dy knows the troubles I seen;
No-bo-dy knows but Je-sus.
No-bo-dy knows the troubles I seen;
No-bo-dy knows but Je-sus.
"Gibberish in, gibberish out. A trial judge, three sets of lawyers, and now three appellate judges cannot agree on what this law means. And we ask police officers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and citizens to enforce or abide by it? The legislature continues to write unreadable statutes. Gibberish should not be enforced as law."
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Posted 2007-November-15, 06:55
The first thing you should do is to count:
* Count the combined HCP in both hands and calculate how many are missing.
* Count your sure tricks.
* Count your losers.
Then use the information
* Count the combined HCP in both hands and calculate how many are missing.
* Count your sure tricks.
* Count your losers.
Then use the information
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Posted 2007-November-15, 07:12
Gerben42, on Nov 15 2007, 07:55 AM, said:
The first thing you should do is to count:
* Count the combined HCP in both hands and calculate how many are missing.
* Count your sure tricks.
* Count your losers.
Then use the information
* Count the combined HCP in both hands and calculate how many are missing.
* Count your sure tricks.
* Count your losers.
Then use the information
That's a horrible song.
I'll try...
Count your winners, name them one-by-one.
Count your losers, see what Pard has done!
Count your many trumpies; count them til' they're gone.
Rectify the count and see what that hath done!
Maybe.
"Gibberish in, gibberish out. A trial judge, three sets of lawyers, and now three appellate judges cannot agree on what this law means. And we ask police officers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and citizens to enforce or abide by it? The legislature continues to write unreadable statutes. Gibberish should not be enforced as law."
-P.J. Painter.
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Posted 2007-November-15, 15:21
Gerben42, on Nov 15 2007, 01:55 PM, said:
* Count your sure tricks.
* Count your losers.
* Count your losers.
If that doesn't add up to 13; count your cards.
Kind regards,
Harald
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Posted 2007-November-15, 15:22
one
two
three
ha-ha-ha
(for those of you familiar with sesame street)
two
three
ha-ha-ha
(for those of you familiar with sesame street)
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Posted 2007-November-16, 03:58
skaeran, on Nov 15 2007, 09:21 PM, said:
Gerben42, on Nov 15 2007, 01:55 PM, said:
* Count your sure tricks.
* Count your losers.
* Count your losers.
If that doesn't add up to 13; count your cards.
That cannot be true: I once held a hand with 20 sure tricks, no losers but only 13 cards
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Posted 2007-November-16, 20:40
Taking care of business ...
Excerpt from Play Of The Hand With Blackwood by Easley Blackwood (1978)
Over the years, many bridge writers have attempted to make the declarers lot an easier one by offering simple mnemonic devices to help him remember the steps he must go through before he plays to the first trick. My own device is the word COB, which stands for the following:
C = Count your tricks
O = Opening lead - what does it tell you?
B = Bidding (or lack of it) by the opponents
</end excerpt>
This is a wonderful book!
Also, see Watson's The Play of the Hand, Chapter XI, Planning The Play, for a very good, if less mnemotechnical, discussion.
Excerpt from Play Of The Hand With Blackwood by Easley Blackwood (1978)
Over the years, many bridge writers have attempted to make the declarers lot an easier one by offering simple mnemonic devices to help him remember the steps he must go through before he plays to the first trick. My own device is the word COB, which stands for the following:
C = Count your tricks
O = Opening lead - what does it tell you?
B = Bidding (or lack of it) by the opponents
</end excerpt>
This is a wonderful book!
Also, see Watson's The Play of the Hand, Chapter XI, Planning The Play, for a very good, if less mnemotechnical, discussion.
If you lose all hope, you can always find it again -- Richard Ford in The Sportswriter
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