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I understand how duplicate bridge works, but I'm still missing one small conceptual part of the scoring, being the outcome when a deal is passed out. Is the score for that hand just assumed to be 0 for both sides
Yes. Why would there be an exception? Passing out the hand is a perfectly valid way to play it.
making it identical to a hand that ...
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In tournaments, certainly, a passed hand is treated like any other; both pairs get a zero score. But in some (NB not all) of those clubs where the hands are dealt at the first table rather than set up by the TD, it is the convention to re-deal a hand that is passed out the first time, on the grounds that it's likely to be passed out every time, and so give ...
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Even with the same experts playing North-South, there will be luck involved.
For instance
When you have a pure guess in a two way finesse for a Q or distribution etc.
When you have a guess during bidding (sacrifice or not etc)
System wins/losses.
When you overbid/underbid/play incorrectly and hit a lucky lie of the cards.
Same hand could be played ...
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In reality a passed out deal on the first round should not be reshuffled and redealt. The reason it is done is that people pay table-money to play in a tournament and want to play the requisite number of boards with card-play as well as bidding.
Therefore people feel "ripped off" if a board gets passed out.
In a duplicate pairs contest, a board that is ...
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Of course there is still an element of luck in Bridge for the reasons laid out.
In pairs competitions there is the luck of the "field", i.e. what your opponents do against you when they arrive at your table. If they do all the right things, your prospects are limited. However they are still there. The skill is in making the most of your own prospects on a ...
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If a hand is passed out, every team that passes it out gets a 0 raw score. These players will also get the same matchpoint score as other teams sitting in the same seats (East-West, or North-South) with a 0 score.
There is the likelihood that SOME pair(s) will play out the deal. Then they will get a higher or lower matchpoint score than average, depending ...
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