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ACBL ought to be using the masterpoint formula to encourage two-day premier events rather than discouraging them. I recently noticed (because of an ad on Bridge Winners) that the Flying Pig regional in Cincinnati includes a two-day pair event. Even though I am not a contender in such an event, it is the sort of event that would increase my interest in a regional. The tournament flyer claimed something like "mid-west's only two-day pair event". I looked around at regional schedules as a result and found them quite disappointing. Most have a bazillion events with no clear "premier" event on any given day. One regional cut through the messiness of scheduling by running the same events every day Tuesday through Saturday: A/B/C Pairs (open stratified); bracketed round robin teams; and Golden Opportunity Pairs (750 MP limit). It is strange to me that such a regional has any appeal.

Hi, #1 first impulse, depending on your offshape opening style, long diamonds. But this makes no real sense, if opener has a long weak suit, why should he believe 3D plays better than 2NT, if the suit is brilliant, why not use the suit in 2NT / 3NT. #2 second impulse, it is accepting game, but showing worries about majors, responder is short in the majors (lack of transfer / stayman), and if opener is 44 / 54 in the minors (maybe even 5m4M), he can be sure about a minor suit fit, although it is unclear, why he should want to go looking for the 11 trick game, when 9 tricks may be there for taking. #3 final impulse: shoot partner. With kind regards Marlowe

I think it shows that responder hasn't realised that they're meant to be playing 2NT as a transfer to diamonds :)

new job. principal statistician at dpt of conservation in nz! will be calculating the standard deviation of the size of kiwi eggs and such :) This is really a dream job, at least I think so :)

1nt 14-18 2nt 19-22 blackwood 0413 the op employs cutting edge methods.