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More cube action after taking my earlier post

Posted By: Gregg Cattanach
Date: Friday, 1 May 2009, at 12:31 p.m.

In Response To: More cube action after taking my earlier post (David Rockwell)

I think Woolsey's doubling suggestion is a good one. If you don't know whether or not it is a take, you should double. The problem is that it is a decision making criteria based on what you DON'T know rather than what you DO know.

Woolsey's rule isn't based on the idea that you don't understand the take/pass decision for your opponent. It is based on the idea that you KNOW the take/pass decision is a difficult one, i.e. it is very close to the take/pass line. If the opponent is close to a pass or barely has a take, then you are in the right part of the doubling window and should double.

I don't think Woolsey means to say that you should double when you have no clue about the take/pass decision, rather that you know it is a close decision whether it is a take or pass.

Scores like 3-away, 6-away certainly make this entire process more difficult, however, as the doubling window has moved rather radically away from money and the effect of gammons becomes much more acute.

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