{"id":934,"date":"2007-09-10T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=934"},"modified":"2007-09-10T13:00:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T13:00:57","slug":"finessing_in_42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"Finessing in 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA couple of the 42 players talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Finesse\">finessing<\/a>.  And I wonder just how often you are able to finesse in 42.  After all, there are only seven tricks in the round.  And the &#8220;cards&#8221; in your hand are members of two suits.  Usually, the focus in this game is to take the point bones (3:2, 4:1, 5:0, 5:5, and 6:4).  However, there are times where you are &#8220;booked&#8221; and points do not matter.  You must take all of the remaining tricks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt seems to me that the finesse in 42 is an all or nothing proposition.  Definitely when you are &#8220;booked.&#8221;  But also when the opposing team is looking for opportunities to dump points onto a loosing trick.  You do not normally want to loose control of what is led since you often have losers that you might be forced to play.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhereas, it might not be that case in bridge.  With so many more cards, I think all might not be lost if your finesse fails.  You can try some other strategy.  Or am I wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of the 42 players talk about finessing. And I wonder just how often you are able to finesse in 42. After all, there are only seven tricks in the round. And the &#8220;cards&#8221; in your hand are members of two suits. Usually, the focus in this game is to take the point bones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}