Bridge Winners Profile for Ken Gamble
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 20, 2015
- Last Seen
- Aug. 15
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- At a table in the Hawaii Regional (1985), Max Hardy mentioned my takeout double had a slight odor to it. Five days later he was able name every spot card in my hand
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Many Regionals, no Nationals
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Carol Maggipinto, Bob Price, Don Seldeen
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Santa Cruz Bridge Unit
- Favorite Tournaments
- Monterey Regional
- BBO Username
- KenGamble
- ACBL Ranking
- Gold Life Master
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- It's Your invitation
- Excellent Doug! So just having 2 Aces and no tens, one should never invite with 4432 hands (23% making game). Correct? But KnR is saying two Aces is worth 9 points which is probably invitational to most players. So if one invites, the 16 point notrump partner will accept and ...
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- Actually the simulations I would like to see are: 1. North has 16-17 points so game is bid on every shuffle. 2. South has 8 points with two Aces, 2 four-card suits and no tens. 3. Same with 2 tens. 4. Repeat 1-3 with one or both suits being a ...
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- I didn't consider tens and nines which was clearly an error as most are using these cards for their evaluations. My partnership doesn't open 1NT with a 5 card major so I was being a little selfish here. But I'm very happy with the comments and they ...
- It's Your invitation
- Got it! Never used KnR.
- It's Your invitation
- Yes, that's the simulation I'm referring to. Am I reading the results wrong? I see no cases where he gets up to 9 tricks.
- It's Your invitation
- Have you noticed the large discrepancy between KnR and Ted's simulations? Two Aces = 9 tricks for KnR and ~8.1 for the simulations. Seems like a huge difference. Tens and Nines are not included in either. Anyone else done simulations on this subject? How heavy can we rely on ...
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- Thanks Ken, I saw your post after mine. Seems clear the 9's are important here.
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- Looks like I'm on the losing side of the split personality. However, I recently came across some simulations ran by Ted Muller. If you trust his simulations, then two Aces and two 4-card suits will yield 8.1 tricks on the average. Having 3 tens will add to the ...
- How would you rule?
- Even though it probably won't change any of the arguments above, all 4 hands are presented below. Most commentators had already a pretty good idea what West and South hands were. N: AK♠ 983♥ KQ9643♦ 42♣ S: Q2♠ 6♥ AJ87♦ KQT865♣ ...
- How would you rule?
- By agreement a cuebid is the only forcing action by advancer. Both 2D and 3D can be passed.
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