So once I lay my hands on some hand records, I'm planning to blog every hand from the final session of the platinum pairs. Or at least the first 2, which are both pretty good.
Part of me finds this idea embarrassing, but I'm confident that in fact it will demonstrate the important role of luck more than anything else.
Run now or stay tuned.
[Andy adds:]
For what it's worth, my overall summary is a bit different. One certainly has to get a bit lucky in the way things work out to win one of these, but it's not like our opponents were crapping all over themselves or anything like that. The level of play was certainly reasonable (as would be expected), we just took advantage of slips that came our way and did a couple of things right. We also did a couple of things obviously wrong, so my overall sense of the demonstration is that you can make a few mistakes and still manage to win.
Undoubtedly plenty of luck in the way it matchpointed out given the margin of victory.
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fwiw my overall summary is a bit different. One certainly has to get a bit lucky in the way things work out to win one of these, but it's not like our opponents were crapping all over themselves or anything like that. The level of play was certainly reasonable (as would be expected), we just took advantage of slips that came our way and did a couple of things right. We also did a couple of things obviously wrong, so my overall sense of the demonstration is that you can make a few mistakes and still manage to win.
ReplyDeleteUndoubtedly plenty of luck in the way it matchpointed out given the margin of victory.