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For me the main rule of all preempts is where I am placed: In 1st seat: - My preempt can eventually cause trouble to my partner, but at the same time I am puting pressure over my opps. In 2nd seat: - My preempt should be construtive, because I have a Pass before, so the majority of the points will be in the hands of my next opp or in my partner. In 3th seat: - I can preempt in favour vulnerability with any trash, even with a 5 cards suit. In 4th seat: - I will preempt only with o good opening hand.

In my system I play DOPI. DBL = 0 or 2 Aces PASS = 1 or 3 Aces

They are all clear opening hands. All of them have an easy rebid to any answer of my partner.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all BBO stuff, and a special season greetings to all Unibridge Club Members and TDs Aurora, Eva 47, Golfermike and Aclegend. Please be happy. IT'S AN ORDER. :rolleyes:

Hello I don't use IE. My browsers are Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. I can open the VUG Schedule and BBO Forum, but can't open any NEW when I log to BBO. Can this problem be fixed? Regards

Some tools used by the best Hosts/TD's on BBO, I forget to mention, are the Chat Assistant or OKScriptX to sent the main announces during a Tournament. I love OKScritX that I adapted to BBO Windows version. I don't think those tools can be used on Web version, and not being possible, it will be very boring to TD's to make that using old way of copy/paste from a macro, insted to make the same with a simple hit on a button. Best regards

I have made translation to Portuguese of new web version. I regret to say, that I will never change from Windows version to Web version. Mainly as a TD, when I try to change any parameter of one of my tournaments in Web version, all the initial description is lost and tournament changes to something like that #??? Untitled. Very bad. and if one of my TD's is directing from Web version, if i am not in the Windows version, the simple fact if he/she add time to a round causes the same effect. Fred and BBO Stuff, please make the same efforts to make a better Windows version, like you are doing to the Web version. The 90% of BBO'ers using Windows version will appreciate. Happy Bridge

I am 100% fan of Private Clubes on BBO. The main reasons are: - A group of players have the right to chose the persons to play with. - We see many tournaments made by TDs who have no idea of what they are doing. They dont know the basic bridge rules, so they have no skill to avalize situations at tables. What they make during tournaments is to send to tournament chat music links from youTube. - We often see posted tournaments saying "TD playing, no Adjustments". Any player looking for a good game will want to be in? Surely no. - Any Host, who wants to make a good job and a good service, must have the right to exclude from tournaments rude players, rushers, poker biders who disrupt normal scores, and most of all those that clearly and scary use non authorized methods. - A good Host or TD must make the home work, and after tournament finished must make a review of the movies. If you follow this, you will have a credible tournament where good and fair players will want to be members. If you dont, you will have just a one more tournament on BOO, but surely not a good one. Best regards

Im still on Facebook. I dont consider it dangerous, if used and visited with moderation. Im only sad cause i see lots of people logged and dont appear on my club to play tournaments and socialize face by face with friends.

My friends, please spend your free time here playing Bridge. Go rarely to your Facebook page. The last news say that Facebook turned on a serious drug called FAD – Facebook Addition Disease, lots of people are now on clinics curing the dependence, cause they suffer of high levels of stress if don’t visit their page for two or three hours.

well, well, INDI is a kind of lottery, but here we go... 1. molvaM 2. uday 3. fred 4. reisig 5. inquiry

Can we have more policemen on BBO? :) :D :D :D

In a recent live tourney, half of the room bid game and other stays in a partial score. Who must invite? Opener hold: ♥ Ax ♥ j8xx ♦ kj ♣ kj9xx Responder hold: ♥ 987xx ♥ AKxxx ♦ xxx Bid goes: 1♣-P-1♥-P-1NT-2♥-P-P-P Some player defend opener must bid 3♥ Others defenf responder must bid 3♥ For me reponder must make a checkback? Please be my guest and let me know your opinion. Thanks

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Hi folks I am very happy with all comments and suggestions above. But be sure, in all my tournaments a will always ALLOW UNDOS. Reason? I can give you lots, but you all know them. JUST A JOKE: :rolleyes: Other day I was playing in a tournament where Undos not allowed. I always play carefully, use good mouse and never surfing in the net while playing. But......my God......instead of PASS, my cat walk over the keyboard and a DBL appears, followed by a propper RDBL. Of course the Tournament was ruined, a desappointed partner cause contract made RDBLed with an overtrick. JUST A QUESTION: :blink: Must all people play online closed in a room? No kids, no pets, no wife......just like in a JAIL. I will never close myself :D

Well As I sugested, maybe another option can be done. I let the problem for software experts.

The never ending problem of ALLOW Undo, DONT ALLOW Undo. Im 100% for tournaments with UNDOS allowed. Lots of reasons can explain a misclick......not necessary to mention them. My question is if there is a way to improve BBO software to avoid them. My idea is that when a player click on a card, instead of the card will be imediatly played, it will be separated for a few seconds and after the player confirm the play or change it clicking in another card. I dont know if its easy or not to upgrade the software for this option or a similar one, but if yes it will definitivly will solve this problem that so often appear in tournaments. I love this game. I love BBO. I love my UNIBRIDGE CLUB, the world class club for online bridge play.

I think DRURY conventios is very usefull as many others, if well agreed. Is a strong tool po play a Partial Score, to bid a Game and sometimes a Slam. I use Drury with 3 and 4 cards, and I have obtained amazing results with the Convention. My DRURY: 2♣ = 4+ cards 8/11 2♦ by ptn asks strenght: 2♥ = 8/9 and 2♠ = 10/11 2♦ = 3 cards 10/11 After Knowing strenght and nº of support cards, its very easy to make decisions.

A retired corporate executive decided to take a vacation. He booked himself on a Caribbean cruise and proceeded to have he time of his life... Until the boat sank! He found himself on an island with no other people, no supplies, nothing, only bananas and coconuts. After about four months, he is lying on the beach one day, when the most gorgeous woman he has ever seen rows up to the shore. In disbelief, he asks her, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" She replies, "I rowed from the other side of the island. I landed here when my cruise ship sank." "Amazing," he says. "You were really lucky to have a row boat wash up with you." "Oh, this?" replies the woman. "I made the boat out of raw material I found on the island. The oars were whittled from gum tree branches. I wove the bottom from palm branch and the sides and stern came from a Eucalyptus tree." "But, where did you get the tools?" "Oh, that was no problem," replied the woman. "On the south side of the island, a very unusual stratum of alluvial rock is exposed. I found if I fired it to a certain temperature in my kiln, it melted into forgeable, ductile iron. I used that for tools and used the tools to make the hardware." The guy is stunned. "Let's row over to my place," she says. After a few hours of rowing, she docks the boat at a small wharf. As the man looks to shore, he nearly falls out off the boat. Before him is a stone walk leading to an exquisite bungalow painted in blue and white. While the woman ties up the rowboat with an expertly woven hemp rope, the man can only stare ahead, dumb struck. As they walk into the house, she says casually, "It's not much, but I call it home sit down, please. "Would you like a drink?" "No. No, thank you," he says, still dazed. "Can't take any more coconut juice." "It's not coconut juice," the woman replies. "I have a still. How about a Pina Colada?" Trying to hide his continued amazement, the man accepts, and they sit down on her couch to talk. After they have exchanged their stories, the woman announces, "I'm going to slip into something more comfortable. Would you like to take a shower and shave? There is a razor upstairs in the bathroomcabinet." No longer questioning anything, the man goes into the bathroom. There, in the cabinet, is a razor made from a bone handle. Two shells honed to a hollow ground edge are fastened on to its end inside a swivel mechanism. "This woman is amazing," he muses. "What next?" When he returns, she greets him wearing nothing but vines and flowers strategically positioned, and smelling of gardenias. She beckons for him to sit down next to her! "Tell me," she begins suggestively, slithering closer to him, "We've been out here for a really long time. You've been lonely. There's something I'm sure you really feel like doing right now, something you've been longing for all these months?" She stares into his eyes and takes his hand in hers... He can't believe what he's hearing. He swallows excitedly, tears start to form in his eyes, and says, "You mean! I can play bridge on BBO from here?

Touching and lovely story. I wish you both all the hapiness of the world.

Fred, my friend I send my congratulations. Is always a pleasure to see you playing and commenting in Vugraph. I wish you all the luck for future. Hug

HI all, with my regular partners i use: 1NT=15/17 2♣ = Stayman (may have no Majors) 2♦/♥ = tranfers In jump: 4 c 2NT: max w/2 honors Tranfer for 1 Major and bid the other is invitational 2♣ » 2♦ » 2♥/2♠ = 5+4 (4+4) to play Smolen GF 2♠ = Minors (Weak or Strong) Bid best fit, if ptn bid 1 Major is sing and Strong 2 NT = 1 Minor Weak or Strong Mandatory to 3♣ if ptn bids: 3♥ = Slam try in ♣ 3♠ = Slam try in ♦ 3 X = 6 c with 2 honors, nothing else 4♦ = Majors Bid game in best fit 4♣ = GERBER 3041 answers 4 NT = Quantitatif Regards

Hi all I know that Drury is played in diferent ways by bridge players. I like a lot my way, that is: After 1 ♥ or ♠ 3th seat oppening: ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 ♣ = 4+ c. 8/11 2 ♦ by ptn to know my strenght: 2 ♥ = 8/9 2 ♠ = 10/11 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 ♦ = 3 c. 10/11 I had lots of joy playing this, cause full info for ptn to bid game or try slam. Regards

Michael As shown, when you have in 2nd seat a good hand with 5 cards, you just bid at level 3. About second question I just put here the defense I play, of course others available, depending what you agree with your partner. Regards

Hi all A very common opening as 2♦ Multi is played in diferent ways: - Some pairs use only as a weak opening 6 cards ♥ or ♠ - Others add a possible balanced hand 20/21 or more usualy 22/23. - Some partnerships add the possibility of a strong hand in any minor. I realize that on BBO, specialy beginner and intermediate players had lots of dificulty to make a defense against this kind of opening. I leave here my sugested defense: 2nd position: DBL = 13/15 or 19+ 2NT = 16/18 bal 2♥/♠ = short (Promises min 4 c. in other Major 3 x = natural 4th position: Over 2♥ = DBL » opening with ♥s Over 2♠ = DBL » opening with ♠s Over any = 3♣ is overcall, short in bided suit 2NT = 16/18 bal ( If ptn x in 2nd…2NT is LEB ) 6th position: 2NT = Minors 3♣/♦ = ♣/♦ + Other Major I hope this can help. Other sugestions wellcome.