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Honor point count

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The balanced HCP count loses weight as the distribution becomes more and more unbalanced. Unbalanced hands are divided in 3 groups: one-suited, two-suited and three-suited hands. Three-suited hands are evaluated counting HCP and distributional points, DP. The distributional points show the potential
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A balanced hand contains no voids or singletons, at most one doubleton and not more than five cards in any suit. Hand patterns fitting these criteria are 4-3-3-3, 4-4-3-2 and 5-3-3-2 and represent 47.6% of all possible deals. Hands with a 5-4-2-2 pattern are considered semi-balanced and if included
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Two-suited hands lacking a six-length suit (5422, 5431, 5521, 5530) are evaluated as above. More distributional hands, such as 6511, 6520, 6610, are better evaluated with the method used for the one-suited hands, that is, counting playing tricks. One-suited hands are evaluated according to the
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In fact, if we consider that a deck has 13 tricks, and that Aces and Kings win most of the tricks, the evaluation of 4 for an Ace is an undervaluation. Real Ace value is around 4.25, a King is around 3, a queen less than 2. But the simplicity of the 4-3-2-1 count is evident, and the solution to
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of the hand to take low-card tricks including long-suit tricks or short-suit tricks (ruffing tricks). Opener's DP count are less valuable as responders because usually trumping in the long side does not add tricks to the total number of tricks.
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The Vienna System was popular among Austrian players before World War II. In 1935 Dr. Paul Stern devised the Vienna system using the Bamberger scale, which ran 7-5-3-1 with no value assigned to the 10.
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On the other hand, dummy contributes with additional tricks when declarer ruff with table's trumps. Therefore, the distributional values of dummy shortage, assuming there is good trump support, is:
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George Reith devised another count method about 1927, in which the 10 was assigned 1 point. To maintain proportionality the points assigned were 6-4-3-2-1, making a total of 64.
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A common practice is to assign values to the four higher honors, called High Card Points (HCP) which are a rough estimate of the real value of those cards in a notrump contract:
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accepted and published it in 1929. Today the 4-3-2-1 method is known worldwide as the "Work Point Count" or "Milton Work Point Count.
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Unsupported honors count less as they have much less chance to win a trick or to promote tricks. The adjustment made is as follows:
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Honors in the long suits increase the value of the hand. Conversely, honors in the short suits decrease the value of the hand.
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number of winners and/or the number of losers in the long suit (AKQ) and the number of winners/losers in the side suit.
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in the criteria for balanced hands would raise the probability of being dealt one of the four hand patterns to 58.2%.
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Bridge classic and modern conventions, vol I, Niku Kantar & Dan Dimitrescu, Magnus Lundqvist, 2001,
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Intermediate honors increase the value of the hand, say KQJ98 is far more valuable than KQ432
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decrease 1 point the value of unsupported doubleton honor combinations: AJ, KQ, KJ, QJ
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better evaluate is to rectify the total value of the hand after adding the MW points.
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Concentration of honors in a suit increases the value of the hand.
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and first published in 1915; after opposing it for 15 years,
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add 1 HCP for having AAAA, i.e., first control in all suits.
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count 0 HCP instead of 1 for a singleton J or even Jx
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add 1 point for a good five-card suit (three honors)
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Index

contract bridge
hand evaluation
Auction Pitch
Bryant McCampbell
Milton Work
Howard Schenken
Oswald Jacoby
Michael T. Gottlieb
Richard Frey
David Burnstine
David Bruce




ISBN
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Contract bridge
Auction bridge
Bridge ethics
Bridge-O-Rama
Bridge maxims
Bridge Murder case
Bridge scoring
Bridge whist
Bridgette
Cheating in bridge

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