In a message dated 12/8/2003 2:25:57 PM Pacific Standard Time,
harry.porter@verizon.net writes:
The criteria would be that
- the discards don't present penalties to the two held cards, and
- the two held cards must have a full range of (6) straight
possibilities open.
For example, 8,9 has 5-9 through 8-Q.
Additional cards for 8,9 would be A,3,K / 3,4,K / etc.
There are more than just the two original I hands I noted that fill
the bill).
Harry, this is an oversimplification. There are hands in NSUDs (like
8c9c4hQdKh) with an "extreme" straight penalty (the Qd, in this case) where the SF2 is
still the correct hold. Quite a few of them, in fact, if you are interested
in perfect play!
Brian
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