Should You Always Play The Percentages - Weekly Free

[@michaelbodell7740]

As usual some weird scoring hands on this: 1. I fell asleep on the play and pulled trump forgetting to ruff the diamond first so only got one ruff and also didn't notice the heart super restricted choice so 4S= which remarkably was 67.9% for a poorly declared hand. 2 and 3 were the same result although I bid 4D instead of 3S on 3 but then ended with the same cue-blackwood-6H (can't double finesse the hearts also because only one entry to the board). 4. I started on clubs too soon and didn't get the info on heart length so lost a club to the J with E as well for 4S= 35.7%. 5. I bid 3H over 3C, not 4, and then sold out to 4C and got 78.6% for holding them to 10 tricks and -130. 6. I did same as you and felt 39.3% for choosing to guard against the danger hand in finesse choice was unlucky. 7. I also didn't want to sell out to 2H, but I tried X which fetched 3D by partner penalty X by E and I ran to 3S undoubled which I managed to bring home for down 1 and -100 and 96.4%! 8. Same 3C= on the same trump lead. Overall 68.3%, unlucky in the scoring on 6 IMHO, but more than made up for with generous luck on 1 (bad play) and 7 (lucky landing spot, and lucky penalty X by E letting me run). Down 7 vulnerable was an impressive feat. Just last month at the club I was down 6 vulnerable (undoubled) in 1NT (3rd seat mini) despite starting the hand with two A in my hand (my -600 beat one table's -620 and pushed one table's more normal -600 for 3nt= iirc). Amazing when 6 and 7 down vulnerable aren't complete bottoms!

[@jyutzler]

My term for +/- 400 for the defense is making game the hard way. I don't think I've ever seen +/- 600 or 700 before this WFIT.

[@yveslebrec4870]

Thanks for the insight, particularly on board 4.

[@shg4421-sb4vb]

Nice recovery, Pete. Don't play again with the guy that bid 3D.

[@johnm6723]

Bd 7. If you think the robot’s 3♦️ bid is bad, if you then bid 4♣️ as I did, then the robot bids 4♦️(!). I got a bad score as I went down 8 and didn’t hold it to down 7.

[@nix4110]

Why would it bid that? Brutal

[@jyutzler]

2. I managed to goad a diamond shift in a completely different way. I think it was just randomness in how the bot interpreted my discards. 5. You have to strip to get the bot to hop with the A. 7. The 🤦‍♂️ was priceless and familiar!

[@TheMiningProbe]

Unsure why you bid 6H missing AC QH? The robot knows to show the queen with 6

[@TheMiningProbe]

Nice play board 4!

[@joeylam.827]

Board 6 on cashing the final club, I discarded a diamond and just ducked a spade to West. That gives an extra trick if spade breaks 3-3, without risking losing the diamond king to the ace.

[@michaelkammermeier179]

The damn bot put in the q of spades on the same play by me:-)

[@rainerherrmann7025]

Board 6, 3NT was in deed interesting. You do not need to finesse into the danger hand to make an overtrick, in fact if you do you can make 2 overtricks. When you run your clubs West did discard a diamond and a heart and East 2 diamonds and 2 hearts. To preserve your options you should discard a diamond not a spade on the fifth club. The third diamond is useless. Given that only 3 diamonds have been discarded makes it likely that you will get your diamond king anyway if the ace is onsite. Meanwhile your chances for 3 spade tricks are in fact above 50% since you hold the ten as well as 8 and 7 When I tried a spade from dummy, intending to play the ten, East went in with the queen (good defense) forcing the ace. I cashed the queen of hearts and then played a spade to the king and another spade end-playing West to open up diamonds.

[@michaelkammermeier179]

Bd7. 3Diamonds????This must be the worst bid of the 21st Century and that is an Understatement!!! Maybe pass is best Pd hasn t 3Spades and will do Bad things over 3clubd