[Trumpace]

How about using Card games?

Inquiry will be Bridge Pro
while a newbie could be SlapJack Pro.

or like some suggested, colours, but like the Karate belts (maybe there aren't enough of those though).


The bridge technique one is good too, but perhaps we should have things like
Casher
Ruffer
Squeezer etc

instead of the name of the technique itself (as helene suggested)

[Lobowolf]

helene_t, on Mar 29 2009, 11:54 AM, said:

Me 2.

They could be ordered by difficulty. Something like:

Cashing winners
Ruffing losers
Finesse
Pseudo squeeze
.....
.....
Devil's coup
Smother play

I think you're starting to far advanced! How bout Nullo, Practice Finesse...

[mtvesuvius]

Trumpace, on Mar 30 2009, 11:58 AM, said:

The bridge technique one is good too, but perhaps we should have things like
Casher
Ruffer
Squeezer etc

instead of the name of the technique itself (as helene suggested)

The what do we use for "Strip Squeeze" or "Strip and Endplay"?

"Stripper" may not go over too well

[helene_t]

mtvesuvius, on Mar 30 2009, 11:00 PM, said:

Trumpace, on Mar 30 2009, 11:58 AM, said:

The bridge technique one is good too, but perhaps we should have things like
Casher
Ruffer
Squeezer etc

instead of the name of the technique itself (as helene suggested)

The what do we use for "Strip Squeeze" or "Strip and Endplay"?

"Stripper" may not go over too well

Sigrid Spangenberg was recently nominated for IBM's Junior Hand of the Year. IMP told the story wth the heading "Sigrid strips". I found that a pretty awful heading.

Anyway, would you rather be a "duck"?

[barmar]

helene_t, on Mar 30 2009, 05:17 PM, said:

Anyway, would you rather be a "duck"?

You could be swinging on a star.

Bing Crosby songs?

[Al_U_Card]

Perry Como?

[Rain]

I'll go with the bridge play idea soon.

The recently replaced "bridge hands" were kinda arranged by what I thought was good bridge hands. So a new poster had a suxy hand.

Really love dogs here!

[hanp]

I also like the bridge play idea There are a lot of funny names too I bet, typical that I can't think of any.

Building upon Helene's list:

Cash aces
Practice Finesse
Finesse
Ruff
Ruffing Finesse
Set up Long Suit.
Chinese Finesse
Duck
Crossruff
Unblock
Bath Coup
Endplay
Dummy Reversal
Scissors Coup
Pseudo Squeeze
Simple Squeeze
Vienna Coup
Strip Squeeze
Double Squeeze
Squeeze without the Count
Criss Cross Squeeze
Compound Squeeze
Crocodile Coup
Devil's Coup
Smother Play

[hanp]

And these are just playing techniques, if we add bidding then we can have:

Misbid
Underbid
Overbid
Grabbit
Preempt
Slam Try
Psyche
Walking the Dog
....

This is harder

[Rain]

What does walking the dog mean?

Ranks changed, will remain for a while.

I have a pretty good idea what the next change will be, and it'll be bridge and animal related. Pretty obvious hint right? =)

[brianshark]

My understanding of it is that you have a hand which you know wants to be playing at a certain level (eg. 4 of your Major) but you have a strong inclination that your opponents are going to bid a lot as well. Walking the dog means to initially bid your suit on lower levels than you intend to end up (even if it is a non-forcing bid, as a somewhat calculated risk) for one of two main reasons:

- Trying to convince the opponents that you have overbid with a hand worse than you actually hold (because you didn't bid high right away) in the hopes they will let you play your contract, perhaps doubled.
- Allowing the opponents to "get their hands off their chest" at a lower level and allow you to play your contract at your desired level when you eventually compete to it. In this case, you suspect if you bid to your desired contract right away, the opponents will probably be forced to bid over you and you think that will be to their advantage.