[Cygnus]

Ed,

First, OHMYGOD is this book opening my eyes. In addition to the quality of the content, it is extremely well written and easy for non-MIT grads like me to grasp the ML behind the strategies. Now I really understand the contrast w/ WLLHE David was alluding to in his posts.

I owe you many beers. Now to my question:

On P.221 hand #2 there appears to be a 2-gap backdoor wheel draw which is not mentioned when you're counting outs for that hand. Is it because we're drawing to the small end of the straight? My real question is...in that situation should we count .5 outs for the backdoor straight draw?

Thanks!