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Make up your mind IV

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2026, at 4:30 p.m.

In Response To: Make up your mind IV (pierrez)

I only see two reasonable(?) candidates:

25/23, 7/6. (OK, 8/7 *might* be reasonable since it 'corrects' points 6-apart but makes some otherwise awkward 3x rolls excellent for White while not creating the best builder distribution nor giving as juicy of return hits.)

25/24, 7/5*. This must be a cube-provocation play, but which kind? The classic and most publicizable occur when the best play coerces a proper cube while the other (worse equity) plays don't. The alternative type occurs when the the play that elicits a cube is worse, equity-wise, than the play that doesn't. I like to coin these "of the first kind" and "of the second kind". Then there's the case where one play is a Take and other a Pass! (I don't know if there's a clever name for that....)

Maybe both candidates elicit a cube turn. I'm anchoring and hoping I don't get doubled, or at least if I do that my Take isn't a blunder.

25/23, 7/6.

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