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Table of Contents Something To Think About . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i Dedication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii Couldn’t Have Done it Without Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii Chapter 1 Why Experts Win and How You Can, Too . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 2 The Sad Truth, Marvin Gaye and Columbo . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Bid Like The Experts Chapter 3 Mel’s Rule of 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Chapter 4 Mel’s Rule of 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Chapter 5 Mel’s Rule of 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Chapter 6 Preempting for Profit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Chapter 7 Mel’s Rule of 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Chapter 8 Mel’s Rule of 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Chapter 9 Mel’s Two Rules of 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Chapter 10 We Led You Astray—Until Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Chapter 11 Mel’s Compete Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Chapter 12 Mel’s Match-Game Rule (For Takeout Doubles) . . . . . . . 115 Chapter 13 Mel’s Frank Sinatra Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Surviving and Simplifying the Competitive Jungle Chapter 14 The Muddled State of Doubles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Chapter 15 Mel’s Rules for “BOP” Doubles (Length-Bidder on the Left) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Chapter 16 “Opener” Doubles (Length-Bidder is on the Right) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Chapter 17 “Responder” Doubles (Length-Bidder is on the Right) . . 169 Chapter 18 Putting it All Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Chapter 19 Avoiding Dereliction of Duty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 The People Factor Chapter 20 What Do You Do When You Don’t Know What to Do? . 205 Chapter 21 Mel’s Five-Second Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Chapter 22 Don’t Order The Salmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Play the Cards Better (On Offense and Defense) Chapter 23 Mel’s Chorus Line Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Chapter 24 Cheap Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Chapter 25 The Hippocratic Oath and Marathon Man . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Chapter 26 The Hidden Dummy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Chapter 27 Mel’s three Rules for Playing 4-4 Fits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 Chapter 28 Executing The Make-Believe Squeeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Appendix I: Better Game Try Adjustment for 5-4 Hand Patterns . . . 267 Appendix II: Exception to The BOP Rule of 2-3-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 Appendix III: Exception to the BOP Rule of 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Appendix IV: When BOP Rules Collide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 About The Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …276 |
