Visual Deal
Visual Deal is a hugely flexible Deal Generator that stands alone by virtue of its ease-of-use, its flexibility, and the fact it includes the generation of complete auctions and play-of-the-hand. Visual Deal uses Bridge Buff bidding and playing modules.
Two Visual Deal Studies
The
issue is this. You and partner play weak NTs (12-14).
When partner opens 1NT, and you hold a 5-3-3-2 hand like
KQxxx/Kxx/xxx/xx, partner likes you to play in the major
(by bidding 2
, or transferring with 2
). You wonder if
it might not be better over the long run to play in 1NT.
What strategy is best over the long haul?
Visual
Deal lets you find out. You set up a variable weak NT
hand in North, and KQ765/K76/765/76 in South. You ask
Visual Deal to play out 1000 deals in 2 by South. After
a couple of minutes Visual Deal produces a summary that
shows the contract makes about 70% of the time.
Now you repeat the process, but instead ask Visual Deal to play out the contracts in 1NT by North. The summary says the contract makes about 55% of the time.
This
time, partner was right. The best contract, long term,
is 2. But
what if the hand was T9876/K76/KQ7/76? Test it out!
Another one ...
The
issue is this. You got a poor result in a competitive
auction at the club. You held Kxxx/AKxx/xx/Kxx. RHO
opened 1
. The auction proceeded as follows:
1/X/1/2
//2, to you. I could Pass, Double for
penalties, or bid 3. I chose to Pass, and they made it,
for a poor result for us. I wondered if this was poor
judgement, or bad luck.
I asked
Visual Deal to look at this deal. I asked to see deals
where the auction went as described, and overcaller had
my hand. I viewed a few dozen deals, and it very quickly
became apparent that the best bid was clearly 3, so our
poor result was not bad luck. I had simply visualized
the hands poorly.
The moral? Use Visual Deal to improve the way you visualize hands!
