[nigel_k]

I would pass. At matchpoints I would probably double but it's still close.

I don't know why we are talking about Justin's advice when the hand doesn't have shortage in their suit. If we had AQx x xxxxx Kxxx it is much more attractive to double.

[HighLow21]

nigel_k, on 2012-February-29, 14:58, said:

I would pass. At matchpoints I would probably double but it's still close.

I don't know why we are talking about Justin's advice when the hand doesn't have shortage in their suit. If we had AQx x xxxxx Kxxx it is much more attractive to double.

We're talking about Justin's advice because (1) apparently he gave the advice somewhere and (2) right or wrong, the OP referenced it on this hand. I agree that Justin almost certainly meant a singleton or void, but this poster didn't think so.

[mgoetze]

Hm, when Phil says "easy double" and MikeH says "easy pass", it's probably not a very good topic for the B/I forum.

[aguahombre]

mgoetze, on 2012-February-29, 20:01, said:

Hm, when Phil says "easy double" and MikeH says "easy pass", it's probably not a very good topic for the B/I forum.

I know you were mostly joking. But, on the contrary. This is the type of situation B/I have not encountered nearly as many times as Mr. Clayton or Mr. Hargreaves. Their rationale should be quite valuable to B/I's. Unfortunately, only one of those two provided a rationale.

[BunnyGo]

mgoetze, on 2012-February-29, 20:01, said:

Hm, when Phil says "easy double" and MikeH says "easy pass", it's probably not a very good topic for the B/I forum.

The forum selection was on my advice. I thought this was the most appropriate of the places to post it; I may have been wrong, but I agreed with Phil and expected most posters to as well. Phil was of course correct in sussing diana's plan of posting the same hand from different viewpoints in different places. I'll let her tell the final story though.

[JLOGIC]

Loading a new thread has become epic... I am genuinely scared for my life every time I do it now

[JLOGIC]

Highlow,

At this point, I am going to believe you are on a crusade against me. You say things like, you have no beef with me, you have nothing against me. You start threads about how you're tired of people attacking you for no reason. This is now the third thread I have opened where you have gone on a rampage against me. Not just that, I did not even post a single word in this thread!

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However, given the quality of some of Justin's recent postings in my opinion, nothing would surprise me.

You are tired of being attacked for no reason? I didn't even post in this thread and this is the crap I get to read. We get it dude. You think you are a great poster, and I suck. Sure, you think some other people suck, but it kills you that I am respected, and that I get lots of REPUTATION POINTS. You are jealous. You deserve those points. I get a lot of these random ass haters but usually at least I mocked them or was rude to them somehow, with you I just wake up and get this.

Maybe people are rude to you because you're an arrogant self righteous jerk? It's not like I go around saying that people who I think suck as posters suck when they are not even in the thread and making snarky comments towards them. But here's one example of you sucking just from this thread:

Pmarlowe said:

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Here on BBF Justin said something like - if they open with a preempt
below 3NT and it comes back to you, and you have shortage in their
suit, act.

You said:

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I'll state it thusly: I think the advice is terrible because it says "always." And it's almost always wrong to say always.

Where does it say "always." The ***** one word you QUOTE does not even exist.

Now, if you could remain objective and were not a jealous hater troll, you would realize that when someone says I said something that is absolutely ridiculous, I probably didn't, despite your previous dickhead comment. You seem to have rationalized it with, well it's my fault if someone misquotes me on something without evidence of it. It MUST be my fault that they misunderstood, because as you have said my posts are always vague and unclear and suck. No doubt, it is impossible that people take hands out of context, or simply misremember what I say. No, that has never happened.

I'm sure if 2 years down the road someone says "HighLow said never to play 6N with 33 HCP unless you're feeling lucky!" you will say "must be my fault for not being clear enough about what I said!"

I'm sure you have no interest in actually being intellectually honest with yourself, you can just sit back and make snide comments/ "attacks" if you like, and hate on me because, well, you suck and I don't and that must suck for you, and then make sad emo posts about how people attack you for no reason.

I am not sure why I even respond to troll bait anymore, I mean I purposely ignored your posts for so long and somehow you still crusade against me. Get over it man.

Of course if you were a reasonable person you might private message me and say "you are being quoted in this thread as saying such and such, can you clarify/confirm/deny? Or you might post here and say you doubt I'd say something like that and ask for proof, or point out that I was taken out of context. Or you could simply trash me and claim that the worlds problems are my fault here.

Speaking of which, did you ever think why it might be that people attack you and don't like you? Maybe it's because you are not very likeable, you think you know much more and are much better than you are, you post like an authority on subjects which you're not, and say utterly controversial things like they are factual and that you have made the best case ever but no oen will listen to you despite it. Lol.

For what it's worth I'd pass!

[the hog]

diana_eva, on 2012-February-29, 07:44, said:

Random TM, 2/1 with no special agreements.

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Now what? Partner is a good player, if that matters.

Pass? Double? Something else?

Pass. The ds are rubbish and I don't even have 4S.

[Free]

I would upvote Justin's post, but it's just inappropriate according to the rules. He even forgot to mention that his reputation isn't thanks to lurpoa's quest to upvote everyone with few posts...

Anyway, I'd double.

[diana_eva]

OK, thanks a lot for replying.

I'm still not sure what would be best. At the table i was very tempted to double, but in the end decided it's just a little bit too flat for my taste, even though it seemed right to do "something".

Here's the full deal:

My link

[Nabooba]

This would be a very poor balance in my opinion. Let them have it.