Hands

I Fought the Law

Sep 302002

None Vul
IMPs
Dealer: East
Lead: A

	wzheng 10 9 5 Q 10 9 7 3 6 5 3 7 3
xylene A K 5 K 10 9 8 4 2 J 10 5 2		deeper J 7 4 3 2 A 8 6 4 2 A 7 4
	Maestro K Q 8 6 J Q J A K Q 9 8 6

West

2
Pass
Dbl

North

Pass
Pass
Pass

East
Pass
Pass
3

Pass

South
1

Pass

STCPs™ must never bid the same hand twice. Experts, however, may bid the same hand as often as they like.

Gee, South, kicks things off today with a first-hand 1C opener. West overcalls a “weak” 2D, which has the advantage of showing her actual six diamonds and the disadvantage of understating her hand by about an ace and a queen. 2D is passed back to Gee, who holds seven probable offensive tricks and not much defense and makes a reasonable 3C bid. This in turn rolls around to East. She holds two sure defensive tricks and knows clubs are breaking badly. The Law of Total Tricks says to pass in such situations, and that’s what I would do. East wisely chooses 3D instead, giving Gee another chance to bid.

The “Law” is another one of those petty rules that experts can safely ignore. North rates to have two clubs, three diamonds — if East had three she would probably raise immediately — and a defensive trick or two, which means 3D is likely down. In fact 3D makes, even on the best defense of a trump lead and continuation, because of the miraculous trump layout and the fact that E/W bid their hands…eccentrically, let’s say. Sensing the impending danger of -110, Gee once again puts his inimitable table feel to work and bids 4C.

West doubles. The normal result is down 3, but we reach it by an unexpected route. West chooses the worst possible lead of the SA, selling out the spade position for the sake of a ruff with her natural trump trick. She shifts to D10; East goes up with the DA and returns a spade. Gee now makes the key play, shrewdly inserting the SK. Although this is not a zero percent play — it wins in the unlikely event that West led the ace holding the jack — there is, in Gee’s defense, no zero play available. In any case West ruffs, cashes the DK, and leads a third round of diamonds, which Gee ruffs.

Gee can now pull the rest of the trump but with no entry to dummy he must concede another spade and we’re back, again, to down 3.

Ah, Gee! Ah, humanity!

Solvers Club

Sep 292002

Let’s play along with the experts. At favorable vulnerability, you hold Q K J 10 9 6 Q 7 5 K 9 7 6. RHO opens 1D in first seat. You venture a 1H overcall, and lefty bids 1S. Your partner passes, righty raises to 2S, and lefty raises to game. Two passes to you. Your call.

You passed? Nice try. The winning action is to double! Sure, it looks like you hold, opposite a mute partner, one defensive trick, maybe one and a half. But that fails to account for the stiff trump queen, which is a potent weapon opposite partner’s K109xx. You think it’s impossible for partner to hold five spades when the opponents have shown at least eight and you have one yourself? Think again, hombre: it’s called table feel. These are the actual hands.

N/S Vul
MPs
Dealer: South
Lead: 8

	kash A J 4 3 A Q 7 5 10 6 3 5 2
Maestro Q K J 10 9 6 Q 7 5 K 9 7 6		shyuhy K 10 9 5 2 8 2 K 9 8 J 8 3
	a-yummy 8 7 6 4 3 A J 4 2 A Q 10 4

West

1
Pass
Dbl

North

1
4
Pass

East

Pass
Pass
Pass

South
1

Pass
Pass

500 of course wins all of the matchpoints. The STCP™ can complain all he likes that North’s bid shows five spades, not four, that South’s opener is dubious in the first place, that North’s raise to game is also questionable, that if either North or South has her bid the spade game is cold, and that if both of them have it there are probably overtricks. There is no substitute for expert psychological insight. Shyuhy, at least, understands the fundamental truth, that the good bid is the bid that produces a good result. “Nice double,” he says to Gee after the hand. “Thanks,” replies Gee modestly.

A Man for All Systems

Sep 282002

None Vul
IMPs
Dealer: South
Lead: 8

	deebee K Q 10 8 7 5 4 9 J 7 5 5 4
giajen 2 Q J 7 6 Q 6 3 2 A K 10 6		zl1 J 6 3 10 8 5 4 3 10 8 4 8 7
	Maestro A 9 A K 2 A K 9 Q J 9 3 2

West

Pass
Dbl
Pass
Pass

North

2
4
5
Pass

East

Pass
Pass
Pass
Pass

South
1

4NT
5

A distinguishing feature of the expert is that he is at home in many bidding systems, adjusting to his partner’s wishes instead of forcing her to adjust to his. So it is with Gee, who plays Standard American, 2 over 1, Precision, Nightmare and many other systems with equal dexterity.

Consider, for instance, today’s Precision auction. Gee’s 1C opener shows any hand with 16 plus points, and North’s 2S reply shows 6-8 points and six spades or more. Back to Gee. Now I know what you STCP™s are thinking: place the contract! 29 points at most in the two hands combined. Two likely club losers, maybe a spade as well. Bid 4S and let it go at that. (In Gee’s case, 3NT, to right-side the hand.)

You poor saps. Don’t you know that 3C is correct here? Where is the sense in settling for an eight-card major suit fit when an eight- or even a nine-card fit may be available in a minor? Note also that 3C gives West a chance to get himself in deep trouble, of which he promptly avails himself by doubling.

3CXX is the winning contract. But North can’t bid it with two small clubs, and she can’t pass with all of her values in a seven-card spade suit; her hand could easily be worthless in anything but spades. She makes the fine choice of signing off in 4S. Gee launches Blackwood. Surely he does not expect his partner to hold the club ace; otherwise what is West doubling on? Perhaps he imagines a North hand like KQxxxxx Qx xxx x. Here 6S would be almost cold. I should note, to be fair, that in this case the Blackwood response would impart nothing useful: real experts are undeterred by such difficulties. North dutifully reports her single key card and Gee, trusting his table feel, signs off in 5S instead of bidding the slam.

East leads a club as instructed, and West cashes the ace and king and fires a third round through declarer. She ruffs high with SQ and can still make (if only Gee were declaring!) by taking a first-round finesse with S9. Instead she plays for the drop and goes down 1. Even an expert auction can be undone by bad declarer play.

Mystery Train

Sep 272002

E/W Vul
IMPs
Dealer: South
Lead: Q

	davekent A K 4 3 2 K 6 J 9 4 A J 7
wildcats 10 9 8 7 2 K Q 10 7 2 K 4 3		lawjon Q A 10 5 A 8 6 3 Q 9 6 5 2
	Maestro J 7 6 5 Q J 9 8 4 3 5 10 8

West

Pass
Dbl
Pass

North

1NT
Pass
Pass

East
Pass
Pass
3

Pass

South
Pass
2

Dbl

How long must an STCP™ study to acquaint himself with the darker recesses of the expert mind? Longer than I have. A lot longer.

The partnership of davekent, North, and Gee, South, returns for today’s hand, from the same session as yesterday’s. I understand the bidding up to a point. 1NT is normal. The 2D transfer is normal. The double is risky — for all West knows N/S make 2DXX — but within the range of normality.

North’s pass of the double shows exactly two hearts; he would accept the transfer with three or more. (This sequence, at Gee tables, has been discussed.) East holds a powerful offensive hand after his partner’s double. Many players would bid 4D, but East, who is sure he can beat 3NT but not at all sure he can beat 4H, bids 3D instead, which looks pretty good to me. Certainly one can’t quarrel with the results.

Gee now doubles. I can work out four possible meanings for this bid:
1. Penalty. He has a game-going hand with some diamond strength and is trying to smoke out East’s bogus two-card raise.
2. Takeout for the other suits. He has a weak distributional hand, something like 4-5-0-4.
3. A retransfer.
4. SashaA is in spec, causing Gee’s hand to shake and making him mismouse.

North chooses option 1, penalty, and passes. The play isn’t cheap either. Declarer wins Gee’s HQ lead with the ace, plays two rounds of trump, and leads a low club to the queen, which holds but leaves him with two club losers. North wins the club continuation and leads a low spade, allowing East to make his stiff queen, and then continues spades when he gets in with CA, allowing him to dump his heart loser on the long clubs. Some might argue that -1070 merits a sticks and wheels logo, but we shall stickle for the formalities.

For those of you wondering what the double was, exactly, Gee clears it up in the post mortem, after a fashion:

G: Sorry Dave.. I did not want to play that 2H contract… my hand too bad and yours too good
Spec #1: huh?
Spec #2: his hand too bad to play 2H?
Spec #3: As I said, “if you can’t dazzle ’em with brilliance, baffle ’em with bullshit”
Spec #4: the dbl was a re-xfer
Spec #5: how about Dr. Robert? is he still on the ship?
Spec #6: all I know is that I am turning blue and going into rigor mortis
Spec #1: if someone comprehends that please explain it to me?
Spec #7: Dr. R in drunken stupor
davekent: I still have no idea what you meant by the double
lawjon: retransfer maybe
Spec #8: Tell Us G
Spec #6: maybe it was a checkback stayman double? Spec #9: for the other three suits?
G: was re-transfer
davekent: hehe – you are kidding i hope?
Spec #4: and we have a winner!
lawjon: you shd have alerted it to dave
Spec #1: when do you let partner know Ds are trumps?
G: no, I am not… I had 6 of them hearts
Spec #6: poor dave
Spec #8: oh my
Spec #3: lololol
Spec #9: Dave is being very stalwart in the face of adversity

Can’t Have Just One

Sep 262002

Both Vul
IMPs
Dealer: North
Lead: K

	davekent 4 8 6 5 4 3 J 6 5 K Q 6 5
marciam K J 8 6 K 2 Q 9 8 A 9 7 2		janet 10 7 A J 9 7 A 10 2 J 10 8 3
	Maestro A Q 9 5 3 2 Q 10 K 7 4 3 4

West

Pass
Pass
Pass

North
Pass
1NT
Pass
Pass

East
Pass
Pass
Dbl

South
1

Pass

Today we have a rarity in the Chronicles, a normal auction. Gee’s hand is not nearly as bad as some that are opened routinely by experts these days, yesterday’s 1D for instance, and in third seat opening 1S mandatory. North’s 1NT is absolutely standard, as is Gee’s 2S reply. East makes a thin but plausible balancing double vulnerable; E/W could easily have a nine-card fit somewhere. Admittedly West’s penalty pass has a faint hint of Bones Principle about it. Still, it wasn’t alerted, as it must be in that case, and 2S seems a pretty big favorite to go down at least 1.

One can certainly envision this auction at another table. Then there’s the play.

West leads the HK, best for the defense, and continues hearts to East’s ace. A third round of hearts is led, and Gee makes the expert loser-on-loser play of discarding his stiff club, preserving trump control in dummy to ruff the sixth round of hearts. (West also sluffs a club.)

East shrugs and leads another heart. Gee with admirable consistency discards a diamond. (The whole obstinate line markedly resembles the 2HX hand from last week on which Gee achieved sticks and wheels in defiance of any rational expectation. A close comparison of the two will reward the reader.) A club shift brings another small diamond from Gee, as West wins the CA. She shifts to diamonds, East winning DA. Six tricks are in for the defense and no trump have been pulled.

East leads another diamond, and finally, finally Gee gets in with the DK. His low trump is ducked around to East’s S7, and Gee must still lose two more trump tricks to West’s KJx for sticks and wheels. So it turns out that Bones didn’t have very long to wait after all. Which is nice.

Is It Or Isn’t It?

Sep 252002

None Vul
IMPs
Dealer: West
Lead: 6

	taryk 10 6 4 9 8 7 10 9 3 A 7 4 3
Hy 8 5 3 2 A K Q 8 5 2 Q 6 5		wildcats K 9 Q 10 6 3 2 K 7 6 4 K J
	Maestro A Q J 7 J 5 4 A J 10 9 8 2

West
1

Pass
Pass
Pass

North
Pass
2

Pass
Pass

East
1

Dbl

South
Dbl
4

Pass

West jump-starts today’s auction with a really grungy first-hand diamond opener — not just eleven points, but eleven really bad points. I suppose everyone opens this sort of hand these days, but with no suit, all the values in the doubleton and no spot cards, I pass. East’s 1H response is orthodox, and Gee makes a perfectly reasonable, if rather light, takeout double.

West passes, as he should have done in the first place, and North makes a forced 2C bid, showing nothing. East devalues his black kings and bids a non-forcing 3D, demonstrating also, perhaps, some familiarity with his partner’s bidding style. 2NT and even 3NT are also possible.

Back around to our hero. Let’s see. His partner has shown nothing. He has zero extras. He has no club support beyond what the original double showed. There’s only one possible bid, and Gee makes it: 4C.

This is passed around to East who doubles, holding an opener himself opposite his partner’s opener (of sorts). The defense begins with a diamond, West quickly unblocks his hearts, and declarer goes down 3 for 500 as he must.

The philosophical question is whether East’s double, lacking so much as a single sure defensive trick, is Bones Principle. Much as I would like to put my new Bones logo to immediate use, I must refrain, on two counts. First, Gee is not playing the hand, which removes it from the realm of the Bones Principle proper. Second, East holds an awful lot of points not to hammer a four-level contract, especially on a hand that doesn’t figure, on the auction, to be very distributional. Maybe next time.

The Best Defense

Sep 242002

N/S Vul
IMPs
Dealer: North
Lead: 7

	johnjay 7 K 8 6 4 3 K J 2 Q 10 9 7
renchau A J 8 5 2 9 7 5 10 9 8 7 4 —		tschen 10 6 4 3 A Q 2 3 K 6 5 3 2
	Maestro K Q 9 J 10 A Q 6 5 A J 8 4

West

2
Pass

North
Pass
4

Pass

East
Pass
4

Pass

South
1NT
Dbl

In bridge defense takes two forms: in the play and in the post mortem. Too often the first necessitates the second.

Today Gee, South, opens a standard 1NT and West ventures a 2S, showing spades and a minor, that is rather thin, even at unfavorable. North jumps to 4H with his stiff spade. This isn’t a terrible bid, but if they are playing Lebensohl then a forcing 3H, showing five hearts and asking South to choose a game, is much better. On the actual layout 4H is almost certainly down while 3NT makes nine tricks at least.

East’s 4S bid can’t be faulted at the vulnerability, nor can Gee’s double. North knows that the defense has most of the points and makes the logical choice of a trump lead.

Declarer wins Gee’s SQ with the ace and does the best he can by leading D7. North wisely plays D2, allowing Gee to win, which he does with DQ, and continue trump. Two more rounds of trump force declarer to eat three diamonds, putting the contract three in the glue for 500. Gee’s aversion to trump leads, however, is well-known, and the specs begin to buzz:

Spec #1: is G bristling again?
Spec #2: probably trump lead
Spec #3: will he continue trumps? i think no
Spec #4: what is he thinking about now….. throw a trump on the table!!
Spec #5: think no, definite NO

Gee leads the CA. This finishes the defense. Declarer ruffs, cashes the HA and CK, cross-ruffs clubs and diamonds, and manages an overtrick in the ending, for the coup de grace, when Gee discards on the good long club and ruffs the losing heart. 690. The specs are shocked, shocked:

Spec #4: pathetic
Spec #1: LOL
Spec #6: G at work…
Spec #7: that was inspired
Spec #2: bad even on the g scale

But now Gee demonstrates what great defense really is:

G: you really fooled me there pd :(
Spec #8: wow!!!!
Spec #4: ???
Spec #3: fooled him?????
Spec #6: pd to blame
Spec #9: the Ace???? when he can see the King
Spec #2: oh its his pds fault we shd have known
Spec #4: fooled him??? pard made a great opening lead
johnjay: what did i do?
Spec #2: lol
Spec #1: well he might ask!
G: the 4H
Spec #10: trump lead indicates shortness in dummy long suit
Spec #8: thought p had club k
G: why 4H?
Spec #1: notice G will get TWO spade tricks this way
Spec #5: no he wont
Spec #8: take the offense g
Spec #4: why club ace?
Spec #1: what chutzpah! first the club ace, THEN criticize the bidding
Spec #6: misclick… “obvious”
Spec #5: john seems to be having a little trouble finding the right words
G: I based my defense around you having 6 hearts and short in one of the minors
Spec #4: with spade lead – down 500
Spec #11: no comment by john :) (his pard)
johnjay: he doesnt do so well if you lead trumps
Spec #3: trump lead means that he is short in a minor according to G. Something like 1-6-5-1… interesting
Spec #9: is this the end of a beautiful friendship?
Spec #8: quite the analyst

It’s Not Unusual

Sep 232002

E/W Vul
IMPs
Dealer: East
Lead: 9

	petit_g K 9 4 K Q 7 2 K J 8 5 2 6
mclucky A J 9 8 5 A 7 6 4 K 9 4 2		a-yummy 10 7 3 A J 10 6 4 Q 10 3 A Q
	Maestro Q 8 6 5 2 3 9 J 10 8 7 5 3

West

3
Pass

North
1

Dbl

East
1

Pass

South
2NT
Pass

A few days ago my faithful correspondent O_Bones remarked on an innovation he christened the “unusual unusual notrump.” It appears he spoke too soon. Either that or I’m going to run out of names.

Grand un petit Gee reprise yesterday’s roles as South and North, respectively. An ordinary 1D first seat opener and 1H overcall finds our hero in difficulties. The sissified pass of a cowardly STCP™ can be rejected out of hand. A bold STCP™ might consider a negative double, but Chronicles readers know this is always wrong with a five-card major. 1S maybe, but then how to show the glorious clubs?

Gee’s answer is the unusual unusual notrump: 2NT, to show 5-5 or better in the unbid suits. The STCP™ would play 2NT here to show a balanced invitational hand with a heart stopper, but you know, small-time once, small-time forever. McLucky, West, must count himself even more fortunate than usual to hold an opening hand in fourth seat on this auction. He swallows his incredulity and musters a raise to 3H.

North knows somebody’s lying, but who? Holding KQxx of hearts he doubles, reasonably, instead of waiting around to find out. This is passed to Gee, who has the defensive tricks he promised, give or take two or three, and stands it.

Against 3HX Gee leads his stiff D9. Declarer makes four by going up with the DA and running the trump 9. He ducks the diamond. North wins the DK and returns his singleton club. Declarer wins and can still make by playing trump, conceding the two trump honors, a diamond and a spade. Instead he unaccountably plays another round of clubs. North ruffs, gives Gee a diamond ruff, and later comes to a spade and another trump trick. Down 1. A triumph for the unusual unusual notrump. I guess.

Captain Courageous

Sep 222002

None Vul
MPs
Dealer: East
Lead: 10

	petit_g 10 6 5 A K J 10 4 J 9 6 4 2 —
classact A J 9 9 8 5 3 10 8 J 9 8 4		a-yummy Q 8 2 Q 7 6 Q 7 5 3 10 7 2
	Maestro K 7 4 3 2 A K A K Q 6 5 3

West

Pass
Pass
Pass

North

1
3
Pass

East
Pass
Pass
Pass
Pass

South
1

Today we elaborate a few intricacies of captain theory for those to whom yesterday’s lecture was not entirely clear.

Gee, sitting South, opens an unexceptionable 1C in second seat. His partner, mini-Gee, responds an equally reasonable 1H, and Gee bypasses his spade suit, discounts his eight playing tricks, and bids a non-forcing 3C.

Or so it appears. It turns out, however, that mini-Gee has appointed himself captain with the 1H bid, and therefore any rebid by Gee is non-forcing. As Gee instructed the specs after the hand:

Spec #1: was 3c a forcing bid last hand?
G: no… I was the crew
G: crew cant make forcing bids
Spec #1: but if you bid 2s as you probably shd wdn’t that be forcing?
G: why would I bid 2S? I have a 6/4 hand, not a 5/4 or a 6/5
Spec #2: if you did, though, would it be forcing?
G: no as the crew I can never make a forcing bid
Spec #1: what made you the crew?
G: I was the dealer
G: the dealer is always the crew
Spec #1: but dealers always make jump shifts and reverses – those are forcing
G: no, they are not
Spec #3: always thought a jump shift by opener was forcing
G: it is not

Let’s review. 2S? Not forcing. 4NT rkc? Not forcing. Running around to the other side of the table, sticking a gun in your partner’s ear, and saying “bid or I’ll kill you”? Not forcing.

Nonetheless mini-Gee has an easy 3D bid over 3C, showing, in all likelihood, at least nine red cards. Any idiot could bid 3NT now with the South cards. But a player who can bypass Kxxx of spades on the first round and then introduce them at the four-level without so much of a hint of support from partner — that’s no ordinary idiot.

Against 4S West leads the D10, as good as anything. Gee wins the DK and plays three top clubs, discarding diamonds from dummy, with both defenders following. Then he takes two top hearts and ruffs a low heart in hand, dropping East’s HQ. He cashes the DA for his eighth trick, and leads a club to dummy. East overruffs dummy’s S5 with the S8, and makes the crucial error of returning the S2 instead of the SQ. West wins the SJ as Gee plays low, and is endplayed. Since 3NT almost always comes to nine tricks, making 4 is good for 90% of the matchpoints. And it’s so simple too, requiring only a 4-3 club split, a 4-3 heart split, a 3-3 spade split and a defensive error.

“Bet this one won’t make Aaron’s column,” Gee crows to the specs after the hand. Does he really expect me to resist an invitation like that?

The Skipper Too

Sep 212002

Sometimes practice must be leavened with a little theory. Last night Gee gathered the faithful and treated them to a lecture on the dos and don’ts of captaincy. Not being among the anointed I have only a fragmentary version and will be grateful to any acolytes who can fill in the gaps. Still, let’s listen in. The spec comments are in bold.

G: New table note: “want to know what this captain theory is about… come over”
G: if you want to be part of the discussion, come in obs not in spec
G: I want to explain the basics of my theory if you are interested, here is how it works
Apostle #1: G really nothing about your concept of bid captain
Apostle #1: just we joking about the phrase “who is the captain” but if u feel offended i’m sorry
G: each team starts with a captain and a crew
Apostle #2: sorry G, I was way out of line
G: the dealer and the player in 2nd seat are always the crew at the beginning of each hand
Apostle #1: i know.. this concept is the base of modern bidding theory
G: well… you guys listen, then maybe you will stop making fun of my captain theory
G: the crew may not give any order
Apostle #1: we fun about the phrase not about the theory
G: only the captain can
Apostle #1: i hope now is all clear
Apostle #3: better by e-mail
G: when the bidding starts, the crew, if makes an opening bid passes info to the captain
Apostle #3: Gee we just kidding of that that’s all
G: if the captain needs more info, he will ask questions to the crew
G: once the captain has gathered enough info, he makes a decision of where to play and how high to play
Apostle #2: but i truly apologize, G
G: just listen
Apostle #2: ok
G: if the captain does not have enoguh in his hand to ask questions, he relieves himself of the captainship by either passing, support crew’s suit, repeat his own suit, these are the 3 ways the captain gives up his captainship
G: once the captain has given up his captainship the crew may pick it up and become the captain
Apostle #3: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
G: if he does, he can then ask questions to the ex-captain and the process starts over again with a new captain
G: if the crew does not want to be the captain, he has the same options as the ex-captain has pass, repeat his suit, support the captain suit. when this happens, there is no more crew nor no captain. any bid by the team becomes a unique non commital bid and meant only to compete without any meaning to search for game
Apostle #4: the crew is planning a mutiny
Apostle #4: at least seaman lall is in the brig where he belongs
G: this is a very short explanation, but it gives a good idea of what the relationship between the players in a team is there cannot be 2 captains at the same time in a team
G: this concept is not my invention.
G: we all, experts play it
Apostle #4: i think i am getting seasick!!
G: but i just express it when noone has
Apostle #4: does anyone have any dramamine and a barfbag?
G: so people who are not experts can be more competitive at a bridge table against better players than them
G: my point is that intermediate players and advanced players stop arguing who is making a forcing bid and who is not
G: peterw was a 41% player… now he is a 50% player using this concept
Apostle #2: lol
Apostle #1: he want convince all us that he is the inventor of captain theory but chiaradia exposed it 40 years ago
Apostle #4: LOL, this is incredible
Apostle #2: he made peterw better
G: all my students, live and on line say the same thing.. it clears up totally what their right and duties as players at the table are
Apostle #4: i am looking for a plank that i can walk
G: and all improve just by using that concept
Apostle #2: sinking ship?
G: that does not always make them experts
G: there are other considerations
Apostle #5: G is the captain and peterw is Tenille
Apostle #2: lol
G: when you are the captain, you have to ask the right question at the right time
G: sometimes difficult and requires to know, using the system elements
G: you, experts in this room play it… I just put it down on paper
Apostle #4: I am going down to sick bay, maybe Bones can help me
Apostle #2: lol
G: for the non-experts to understand what is going on at expert tables
G: have questions?
Apostle #2: no, this is just a rant
Apostle #6: Gee please, what did you mean by the unique noncommital bid not having captain?
Apostle #1: if u feel offended i’m sorry. that’s all
Apostle #3: me too geeee
G: ok
Apostle #2: me too, truly sorry
G: means that once the captain has given up his captainship he may not pick it up again
Apostle #1: ok
G: if both players have given it up there is no more captain
G: if one of the players makes a bid it is a free unique bid not asking the partner to answer anything
Apostle #3: right now no more questions
G: ok any other questions?
Apostle #6: sry, I lost my connection
G: ok, I will tell you again
Apostle #6: so I did not hear the answer to my question G please
G: if the captain gives up his captainship, and the new captain gives it up as well, there is no captain in the team
Apostle #4: how many imps per knot are we losing?
Apostle #1 (to Apostle #6): you bastard
Apostle #7: i just want to know what happened to the captain
Apostle #2: lol
Apostle #4: the captain went down with the friggin ship
G: any bid is a single bid that never asks the other team member for any answer or anything
Apostle #7: i mean… it’s like he disappeared
G: this answers your question?
Apostle #4: the captain is a friggin troll
Apostle #2: sorry folks, didn’t mean to start a rant
Apostle #1: pittttttttttyyyyyyyyyyyy
Apostle #1: sayyyyy yesssssssssss
Apostle #6: thank you
Apostle #7: oh where oh where has my captain gone…
Apostle #8: is he being serious?
Apostle #7: oh where oh where can he be???
Apostle #3 (to Apostle #2): make me a favour
Apostle #2: sure
Apostle #3: ask gee who is the captain
G: buy my e-book “Bridge Is a Conversation” to get all the detail on this
Apostle #2: LOLOL
Apostle #1: i cant stop laughinggggggggggggggggggg
Apostle #9: azzzzzzzz
Apostle #3: his book OMG
Apostle #10: what did u do?
Apostle #11: no ask… if aaron is the captain??
G: thank you all for listening hope that clears a few points
Apostle #4: he will go into a frenzy
Apostle #12: everybody should immediately promise to buy the book
G: seeya

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