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Forcing, wtfp?

Abstain, opening 1♠ on that hand is mad. Please tell me that whomever held this hand in real life accidently put a club in with the spades.

That's probably the last cuebid that I would consider. Unless we have specifically discussed and agreed serious 3N, I'm putting 4♣ on the tray and waiting for the real problem to come next round.

That's bullshit.

Then vote for it to break up the unanimous poll, Han. Please do so by Friday, or else I will have to hire a monkey to do so for you.

I was the original declarer at the table. I played for a stiff king (cold with 4-2 diamonds if it is on my right, some extra chances if it is on my left), when the alternate line of running the ♥Q would have worked. For you and your partner, do you think 4♦ shows this type of hand?

Monkeys, duh!

I certainly have this experience with partners with whom I have little discussion. We do wonderfully the first time, then after a couple weeks off, discuss more system and lose all chemistry. I think it's primarily due to making sensible middle-of-the-road calls when there is no system, and relying too much on the makeshift agreements during the second time together. I have not had a regular partner, whether it be Tom, Warren, or Matt with whom I scored better during our third tournament than our first. With Tom, since we were playing frequently during the spring of 2003, it took only three months to regain that first-time magic. With Warren, I achieved regular success in top-bracket regional knockouts in Atlanta and Denver (2005). Since he lived in Omaha, the second-session slump burned our sessions Gatlinburg and Chicago (2006). I was particularly glad that we became comfortable with the system during the Saint Louis nationals last year. With Matt, we played a strong club system competenly on BBO during the summer and fall of 2006. Then, Reno was a bloody disaster bridgewise, although being drank under the table by a petite gnome doesn't help my abilities one bit :unsure: . We reverted to playing vanilla 2/1 before the San Francisco nationals last fall, since we had a sponsor and accountability for our results. Only very recently have we started playing the strong club system again. We have not had to test it in a formal (top bracket regional or higher) setting yet. Then I know that Dick Morgen of Havertown (Phila.) Pa. won two open regional events in Wilmington with two different first-time partners. After winning the Wednesday (maybe Thursday) open pairs with Mike Shuster, we were on the winning knockout team in the weekend knockout.

23-0 top of the 5th, where was that mercy rule that we had legislated for the 'frying pan' thread?

Correction. As of January 1, 2008, regional knockouts award 65 gold points for first place.

Online Speedball Pairs (n.) - A new method devised by the ACBL to sell worthless, colourless masterpoints faster.

I'm hooking lefty for the ♦Q because a gnome told me to.

[hv=d=n&v=n&s=sk8hq1042dkqj102cj10]133|100|Scoring: XIMP Pass (1♠) ???[/hv] Please vote for chimpanzees if you are a Raptor lover or ELC fanatic who can't afford not to be playing it for one hand.

Do you think that a PhD thesis would be enough to cover what this person has done? He has been an absolute revolutionary in his specialty in bridge.

I'm going to vote for lemurs, even though that is NOT Ken Rexford's favourite primate. However, if forced to make a legal bridge call, I will 2♥ to schwing :P

Just because it is their turn to bid. And they probably led the ♠8 just because it was closest to their mouse pointer.

Gnomed :P

Cheating at High School Term Papers

3♥. Fortunately, I don't live on the same planet as the 3♣, wtp? crowd. By the way, Han, the animal of choice has changed to LEMURS, since Ken Rexford scared away a statistically significant portion of the monkey subjects.

Oh damn, I insta-voted for pass, then noticed it was matchpoints, not bridge ...

38-3 in the bottom of the sixth inning, we're going to find a mercy rule to stop the bleeding now ...

[hv=d=e&v=n&s=sak10xhaxdaqjxcxxx]133|100|Scoring: XIMP 1♣ on your right[/hv]

Pull, takeout doubles are meant to be taken out. Fortunately I have three card support and can go grab another Guinness as he plays 2♠X. Not even close for me. Had I one fewer spade and one more heart, I might chance the licking in 2♦X.

Three notrumps, semi-quasi-pseudo-hemi-demi-balanced? Maybe one monkey in 10^500 may have believed this deal actually happened before that hit the tray. Now, we have to work on other species.

Which monkey voted for pass?