Elianna

Unfortunately, you can still get mail from enemies. Or at least, I've received mail from enemies.

Not sure what NO3 is. Nitrous Oxide (more correctly dinitrogen monoxide or N2O) is laughing gas (used in surgeries). Jtfanclub already has this. Also, there's NO2 (nitrogen dioxide), which is an air pollutant. When it heats up, it forms ditrogen tetraoxide (N2O4) which looks browner, and is one of the components of smog (if I remember 7th grade correctly).

oh hell, elianna i'm sorry!! happy belated birthday to you Thanks!

Methane is CH4, not C2H4.

I don't like any of these options. I'd vote for "any opening hand, plus any hand that meets the rule of 15".

2D 18-19 balanced is commonly known as "Mexican 2D", and there are many versions of responses that I've seen. It is ACBL general chart, as you are allowed to use 1C, 1D, 2C, and 2D as any strong, artificial and forcing bid. See under allowed openings #1,3, and 5: http://web2.acbl.org/documentlibrary/play/convchart2005.pdf You are allowed to play any responses to strong artificial opening bids, which makes 2♠ --> 2NT legal. I've played that all bids are transfers over 2D, and I've played that none are. And I've heard of versions in between. I'm not sure what you mean be transfer precision. If you mean transfers after the strong clubs, then yes. If you mean transfer openings, then no. If you mean something else, then check the chart (referenced above). <_<

His partner has seen him play. (Just kidding, btw). In my defense, I've seen him overcall on 14 points frequently. BTW, I voted for pass by the overcaller hand. Yes, I'm very conservative on these hands. I make a good partner for a joker. :)

This is patently untrue. I mainly play with one partner, and it's usually against partnerships that are less practiced than ours is, or with beginners that we're helping out, and thus we average over 1 imp a board. We haven't played thousands of boards in the last month, though, mainly because of vacations, but I still take exception to this characterization of yours. And further, I bet it's not just Adam and I, but many established partnerships have the same experience. Also, you seem to not understand the difference between kibbitzing a live match, and discussing it with your fellow kibbitzers, and looking over hands in hand records. The first is lively and exciting. The second is rather stale, boring, and frankly rather lonely. It's the difference of seeing a movie in a theater, and seeing it on DVD. ETA: 1eyedjack seemed to say the same thing as I did, but I missed it. Sorry.

I hope that you follow this philosophy when you are playing.

Say the Help Suiter had Hxx in clubs, and xxxx in diamonds. The Game Goer could still accept on a club void and xxx in diamonds, making the sacrificer's decision to bid 5♦ dumb. Also, if you're giving an adjusted score because you believe there was an infraction, you give who you consider the offending side the BAD score. If there's a side that you don't adjust for, it's the NOS (if you feel that they made SIGNIFICANT contributions to their poor result). This adjustment seems to be just an attempt to make both sides happy. Also, the comment about "you've been playing with him for years, you know he psychs this." is an accusation of cheating, plus I wonder how possible it is, since weren't you a beginner several years ago, anyway? I'd have warned the opp that he was verging on a ZT violation (and attempt to give him one if he gave me even the flimsiest excuse). I'm told I'm too liberal with the ZT penalties, though. Anyway, I thought that this was ridiculous the first time I heard it, and I'm even more positive about that now. I doubt I would have appealed, though, just attempted to talk to the director again (in a calm, non-argumentative tone), and ask under what law he was adjusting, and ask to be allowed to read that law, and then argue from there. And if that gets me nowhere, then it's up to my pard. Also, unit games are glorified club games. Don't expect better directing in them.

ya it was cool and fun.....but check out b/w carry grant/hepburn movies...for real late night romance fun but then you may not find him good looking at your young age??????? Umm, Mean Girls was NOT a romance. And yes, I've seen both Philadelphia Story and Bringing Up Baby, and they're entertaining movies.

People can have their partners pay for both entries, so they don't have to buy BBO$.

I just watched the movie "Mean Girls" on tv. It was great. Highly recommended for those who appreciate the high school movie genre, but more sarcastic than most of them.

Wayne, Right click on the image and then click block image...You will never see it again. ;) I was so excited to try this, but when I right-click, I get no options that say "block image" or anything of the like. I guess it's back to no longer seeing ANYONE's signatures for me.

If you don't like a thread, you don't have to post in it. And if you find it really problematic, you can complain to a moderator.

My club is ACBL, too, and our main problem is inability to move. I bet that we have an older average population. Our day games seem to have an average age of 80. I'd say 90% are over 70. We also almost always have N/S have a sit out (when there is one) so that way the boards actually get PASSED. The only time I have an E/W sit out is when we have 6 or 8 tables and so there's a relay-byestand movement (and thus no relay).

That was just amazing to me! At the club where I direct, if you are able to move, you must make a reservation WAY in advance to get a NS seat (usually a week or more). And by able to move, I mean you don't have a walker. I've had some ladies play EW who had canes. And every player at my club seems to have a bad back so they can't move. Funny thing is, some of these bad backers can get up to smoke after every round. I usually prefer to sit EW so it's less rude to get up from the table to get away from people. the only exception is if I happen to be carrying a lot of things for one reason or another.

I understand that this is American football (which I know very little about), but out of curiosity, why must you emphasize that Ohio is a state? So is Florida. Roland Most states have 2 public college systems. 1) University 2) State The university system is tougher to get into, more geared towards research and PHD's. The state school often has the better football teams but not always. They are both public as opposed to private schools. There is an Ohio University and The Ohio state football....two different schools...Ohio University sucks at football assuming they even have a team. Florida has the University of Florida and Florida state football....they are both good teams but the University has the better team this year. I want to add, to be more confusing, Ohio state's full, official name is The Ohio State University. Woe unto those that drop the "The" in front of a buckeye. Also, Ohio University definitely has a football team. They're playing in the GMAC bowl on Jan 7. Besides having a better football team, Ohio State is also ranked as a better university (57th nationally on USNews's rankings, as opposed to Ohio's 110th) Note that Ohio also has a university called Miami University. This is not the "Miami" you normally hear about in college football. That team is in Florida. I'm actually not a big sports fan, but I enjoy college football, especially rivalry week. I don't really care about the bowl games or BCS to be honest. And a side note to Phil: B) (from both Adam and I)

I believe option B) was on before. As it often happened to me the last 1 (2) trick disappeared suddenly and next deal was on. If one wanted to see what happened it was necessary to look at the movie. This happens when partner claims (or concedes). You don't get to see the claim/concession, and it goes directly to the next hand. I actually don't like this, because I've seen players who were too impatient, and conceded the rest of the tricks when partner actually had a trick. Of course, declarer shouldn't accept that, but people can't help themselves, sometimes.

This is something to think about before playing to trick one. I also think that the hesitation doesn't necessarily imply what you think it implies. In fact, if they play Smith, I'd say it was the opposite. The guy didn't really like the lead, but didn't like anything better. Same if suit-preference.

Yes, there are. But it's not clear what you're asking for: Do you mean: 1. When opponents open 1NT and you're overcalling, or 2. When you open 1NT, and they interfere?

While it's true that there are other qualifications for being a regional or national director, if you are qualified to be a club director, you are qualified to be a sectional director. The only question is if you get hired by the unit putting on the sectional. Here in LA, all our sectional directors (that I've seen at least) are actually regionally rated if not nationally rated. And I can still remember some awful rulings.

Don't know if this is a bug or not, but if you have a yellow tagged as a friend, they now appear purple (the friend color), not as a yellow. Previously they were yellow. They're still in the group of yellows. This is rather ugly to look at (because the color groups are no longer together), so I suggest either keeping yellows always marked as yellows, or else if they're marked as friends moving them to the top of the purple list instead of in the middle of the yellow list. eta: when you scroll over them, the top of their profile is yellow, and at a table, their name is yellow.

NT is usually easier when partner has 14 cards. I sometimes prefer 12 when playing in a suit, though. :)

Congratulations! And 3 possible reasons why you got your placement in B: 1) They had only two divisions: A and B. This is not likely in an open game, but pretty likely in a small, limited game, where they didn't have enough people to round out the other divisions. However, since you got points for being 3rd in B, this sounds highly unlikely in your case. 2) Whenever you are placed in a category, you are automatically in the category above. So if you're in C, you're automatically in both B and A. If your placement in B was worth more points than your placement in C, then you get points on the first criteria. 3) A director mis-enterred your name/ACBL number. This has happened before (more often in club games, but also in tournaments), and I always check that it is MY name that appears in the recap sheet. By far the most likely to have happened is #2.