JoAnneM

I think you are wrong but it will take you some time to find out why.

Offline bridge means topics that are not about online bridge.

Go Giants

Baseball is my favorite, but there are lots of other good ones - golf, track and field, swimming. I used to enjoy watching pro football but it has changed in the last ten years and not for the better.

Congratulations to past District 20 President Marc Zwerling, from Portland Oregon, and his partner, Wolfe Thompson, on their 1st place win in the Imp Pairs at Philadelphia. Marc's service as volunteer District Counsel and Board member has been invaluable and now to see this victory is just thrilling. Congratulations Marc and Wolfe!

I have never heard of this game but it look dangerous. No wonder you are injured.

Congratulations to you and your team, Fred, and thanks for providing us with the wonderful Vugraph so we can watch. Jo Anne

I certainly appreciate the comments. I agree there are lots of causes for revoking. When it comes down to it the main cause might be just not paying attention and different colored cards may not help enough to warrant making the change. Elianna, in a 5-7 table game, which we are unfortunately having right now, I might get two revokes per session, which I think is excessive, and which I think gives away too many penalty tricks, especially when I look at the travelers.

Hi, it was a pleasure meeting you. 3D was a feature. The tournament was quite a surprise to everyone. We budgeted for a 10% reduction from last year because of the Philadelphia games, and if attendance held up today we had over a 10% increase from last year. Players are learning that Seaside, Oregon has a lot to offer.

Has anyone played with the card decks that use a different color for each suit? Revokes plague our club and I am looking at these cards at the Baron Barclay site and wonder if they would help with the problem, and if the players would accept and like them. Thanks, Jo Anne

I played this hand: 2h - 2nt - 3d - 4h

There is only one type of player that I don't want to play with, and that is the inflexible one who cannot adjust, or who insists on "my way or the highway". I ask a player what they want to play but if someone sits down and tells me what we are going play the alarm bells start ringing.

I doubt very much if I am the only iPad owner who plays BBO so this is not a personal crusade. However I am beginning to think there is some sort of crusade going on here on the Forum.

Why would declarer be touching dummy? How dummy takes takes of the cards is actually something that should be discussed by a partnership. For instance, I don't want dummy to move the suits closer together after one suit is used up. I want that gap left there. I don't even want it moved when I am defender, but I am not sure if I am entitled to say anything.

So, if you are a public employee, not working for a business entity, you are on welfare?

That is pretty good news, at least a ray of hope. Funny though, my daughter-in-law who is product manager for iTunes and apps had not heard about this as of yesterday when I talked to her. Word must travel slowly in that huge company. Maybe if she would try bridge we would get somewhere.

Does everyone play Walsh? We don't here. 1D does not deny a major suit. Just bid your hand. Other than that - the robots don't talk back.

To be fair? You must be reading other papers. Maybe we are just super sensitive in our house.

Well that conversation didn't sound promising. Can BBO be rewritten using Html5? How many ipads have been sold, how many are bridge players. I could have had some converts today if I had had the app on my iPad at a social gathering we were at.

I am not getting any errors when choosing to list "All" countries

It is very difficult to get a decent interview about bridge in a newspaper. They send out a totally clueless person who takes some notes and who then goes back to the office and writes up things he thinks he remembers or wrote down wrong, or stuff that someone's grandmother told him and she was clueless too. Anyway, that is what happens when we have our tournaments, and we can't write the article for them because they think we can't write.

The way I get around those problems? The bump pair always consists of either another director, a pair of fast players, or experienced bumpers that I can trust. We actually don't have problems with bumping here. And people still smoke? I don't think they do in California.

When using a bump movement it is the director's responsibility to make sure that a pair knows they are going to be bumped in the next round. The bump pair is instructed to notify the pair one round ahead, and the director monitors and also notifies. This should prevent mishaps. When it doesn't, the pair who was supposed to play the board, and did, keeps their score, and the pair who missed playing it gets avg+ or avg at my discretion. When it comes right down to it the buck stops at the Director.

I don't think we should give up yet. I REALLY want to play BBO bridge on my iPad. If BBO doesn't want to deal with HTML5 maybe this will eventually help: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2353810,00.asp Adobe to Translate Flash Apps for iPhone Granted this is all in early stages but the computer world moves in warp speed. I will ask Holly about it this weekend.

I posted a reply and the next time I looked it was gone, very strange. I will try again. No procedural penalties. I was concerned that the missing card would change the bidding and play too much so I had the next table shuffle the board. I gave n/s an average minus and e/w an average plus. E/w did count their cards correctly. I told them all they should have discovered where the card belonged before they started playing, and called me if they had a problem. I don't know where they thought that card came from.