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#1 User is offline   daveharty 

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Posted 2013-February-22, 10:31

I couldn't find the thread about yarbs with the lowest pip count, but last night I was dealt this lovely collection: ♠3 ♥6542 ♦75432 ♣762.

Turned out to be one of our few good boards. Here was the full hand:



N/S bid briskly to 6NT, and North managed to set herself despite 12 easy tricks, losing to both red queens.

"Good try," her partner remarked diplomatically.

She sighed. "Seems like my finesses never work against these guys!"
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Posted 2013-February-22, 10:35

To which Queen did she lose first? :ph34r:
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Posted 2013-February-22, 10:38

View Postdaveharty, on 2013-February-22, 10:31, said:

I couldn't find the thread about yarbs with the lowest pip count, but last night I was dealt this lovely collection: ♠3 ♥6542 ♦75432 ♣762.

Turned out to be one of our few good boards. Here was the full hand:



N/S bid briskly to 6NT, and North managed to set herself despite 12 easy tricks, losing to both red queens.

"Good try," her partner remarked diplomatically.

She sighed. "Seems like my finesses never work against these guys!"


Very nice...always fun to look at the inverse...

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Posted 2013-February-22, 10:50

View Postdaveharty, on 2013-February-22, 10:31, said:

Turned out to be one of our few good boards.
Obviously thanks to you making all the right decisions on that board :P
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Posted 2013-February-22, 11:02

View PostFluffy, on 2013-February-22, 10:50, said:

Obviously thanks to you making all the right decisions on that board :P

Well, west evidently didn't lead a red card. That's one right decision at least.
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Posted 2013-February-22, 11:03

View PostFluffy, on 2013-February-22, 10:50, said:

Obviously thanks to you making all the right decisions on that board :P

Sometimes our results are inversely proportional to the number of decisions I am asked to make!
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Posted 2013-February-22, 18:21

There are 12 cards lower than a 6 and your opponents only had one of them.

There are 12 cards higher than a 10 and you had 4 and won with half of them.

Very efficient.
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Posted 2013-February-23, 09:34

probability of the less than 8 yarb = 0.00000393 ( I think)

So I guess you might expect to see this about every 250,000 hands!
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Posted 2013-February-23, 22:49

View PostFM75, on 2013-February-23, 09:34, said:

probability of the less than 8 yarb = 0.00000393 ( I think)

So I guess you might expect to see this about every 250,000 hands!

Cool, I've gotten one also! :lol:
I got ♠ 75432 ♥6542 ♦ 62 ♣ 42 once in 4th seat.
Bidding went something like:
(1♠) -2♥ - (3♣) -4♥ :blink:
(5♣) - 5♥ :o - (dbl) -AP
Went down 3, then I explained to my partner I got excited that I got a yarb that was almost useful for once
edit: remembered one of the cards wrong
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Posted 2013-February-23, 23:38

View PostLord Molyb, on 2013-February-23, 22:49, said:

Cool, I've gotten one also! :lol:
I got ♠ 75432 ♥6542 ♦ 62 ♣ 42 once in 4th seat.
Bidding went something like:
(1♠) -2♥ - (3♣) -4♥ :blink:
(5♣) - 5♥ :o - (dbl) -AP
Went down 3, then I explained to my partner I got excited that I got a yarb that was almost useful for once
edit: remembered one of the cards wrong


What was the vulnerability? At favourable -3 is a good sac!
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Posted 2013-February-24, 06:57

View Postmikl_plkcc, on 2013-February-23, 23:38, said:

What was the vulnerability? At favourable -3 is a good sac!

nah, we were vulnerable.
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Posted 2013-February-26, 08:12

View Postdaveharty, on 2013-February-22, 10:31, said:

She sighed. "Seems like my finesses never work against these guys!"

As usual, when complaining about bad luck, players overlook their good luck.

The SK was right, wasn't it? And that was all the luck she needed. If the SK had been wrong, she really would have needed some seriously good luck in the red suits.
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