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Venue: Jersey Farm Community Centre, Sandringham Crescent, St. Albans AL4 9RG. Every Monday including Bank Holidays Doors open at 7.15pm for Start of Play at 7.30pm.
Duplicate Pairs each weeks except 2nd Monday of month when there is a competition for Teams of Four. If you have a partner, please turn up without any formality. Otherwise contact Diana Barry. Tel: 01727 753943 or ahblettings@lineone.net
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Comment After the Play of a Deal After play has finished, some players simply replace the cards into the board in the order in which they had been played. Others carefully “suit” them, whilst others give them a quick shuffle. At present all ways are permitted but from 1 August it will be obligatory to shuffle the cards before replacing them in the boards. There is some merit in the change. Suiting a hand takes time and may not necessarily be appreciated by the next player who might prefer to check the cards individually against the hand record. Leaving the cards routinely in “play” order could suggest a passed-out board to a player unexpectedly finding the cards already suited. It did on 21 April! To the more sophisticated it might indicate an interesting hand that had been subjected to an illegal post-mortem? As shuffling is to become obligatory the Club will introduce it as a trial before August Bad Shuffling and Flat Hands Try an experiment. Deal out a pack of cards into four hands. Arrange the cards of each hand into suits and into ranks within each suit in the normal way ready for play. Now, without shuffling, place the four hands on top of each other and deal again. Then again sort the hands into suits and rank. On examination you will find the hands are more likely to be flat with the cards of each suit more evenly distributed than normal and in particular no hand can have a void. There will also be a tendency for lower cards to sit under higher cards. If you could be certain that this is how the boards were prepared, you might consider taking advantage of the probable distributions. Play in no trumps when you can. Avoid finesses if you can, they are less likely to succeed. You might think this the way to succeed at “Kitchen Bridge”. After the AGM on 21 April, the start of play was rather hurried and perhaps the cards were not as thoroughly shuffled as usual. Some thought the deals more flat and less interesting than normal. There certainly seemed to be more boards passed out than usual. Comments please to gerald.everitt@tiscali.co.uk
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