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Reasons for the Jacoby Rule

Posted By: Phil Simborg
Date: Thursday, 10 March 2011, at 10:23 p.m.

In Response To: Reasons for the Jacoby Rule (Joe Russell)

Interesting thoughts. However, if you were to use the Jacoby Rule in match play as well as money play, I'm not sure it would be "worse"--I simply think the game would be "different." I will have to give this more thought, but it might really be fun to play match play with the Jacoby Rule. Things could get extremely complicated if you have to double to get a gammon but you are at a score where the recube vig is high. Seems to me that the Jacoby Rule would make the game more complex than it is, and for those of us who embrace complexity (I've been married 3 times), that's a good thing.

Messages In This Thread

• Jacoby rule current usage
  leobueno -- Tuesday, 8 March 2011, at 4:41 p.m.
  • What actually IS the Jacoby Rule?
    Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 8 March 2011, at 4:58 p.m.
    • What actually IS the Jacoby Rule?
      Casper van der Tak -- Tuesday, 8 March 2011, at 5:03 p.m.
    • The (potential) ambiguity
      Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 8 March 2011, at 9:59 p.m.
      • The (potential) ambiguity
        Sam Pottle -- Tuesday, 8 March 2011, at 10:46 p.m.
      • An additional ambiguity
        Steve Mellen -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 12:38 a.m.
        • An additional ambiguity
          Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 3:28 a.m.
          • An additional ambiguity
            Stick -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 3:38 a.m.
            • An additional ambiguity
              Jake Jacobs -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 3:55 a.m.
              • Apodictic?
                Casper van der Tak -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 5:27 a.m.
                • Apodictic?
                  Stick -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 5:38 a.m.
                  • Apodictic?
                    Casper van der Tak -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 5:50 a.m.
                    • Reasons for the Jacoby Rule
                      Joe Russell -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 6:41 a.m.
                      • Reasons for the Jacoby Rule
                        Casper van der Tak -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 7:10 a.m.
                        • Reasons for the Jacoby Rule
                          Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 7:04 p.m.
                      • Reasons for the Jacoby Rule
                        Stein Kulseth -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 10:34 a.m.
                        • Reasons for the Jacoby Rule
                          misja -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 1:06 p.m.
                        • Jacoby Rule - a challenge
                          Ray Kershaw -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 4:53 p.m.
                      • Reasons for the Jacoby Rule
                        Phil Simborg -- Thursday, 10 March 2011, at 10:23 p.m.
                        • Reasons for the Jacoby Rule
                          Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 10 March 2011, at 10:33 p.m.
                    • Apodictic?
                      Jake Jacobs -- Thursday, 10 March 2011, at 3:56 a.m.
                      • Apodictic?
                        Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 10 March 2011, at 8:38 a.m.
  • purpose=stir up action
    lenny -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 2:57 a.m.
  • Jacoby rule current usage
    Sebastiaan kuijs -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 8:45 a.m.