cactus1982

hi all, I'm looking for a partner to play some hands or online tournaments. I'm from Montreal and I'll be available mostly weekdays in the evening and all day during the weekends. I play a considerable amount of conventions and I'm open to learn some new ones. I like to play in Just Declare tourney here in BBO and I score on average 55%. I'm looking for someone who like to play but that would like to go over hands later on to talk and discuss what was good and what went wrong to improve as a team. I'm looking to play a 2/1 game and you can see what i play on my profile on BBO. My user name is cactus1982. You can respond here or contacted me via BBO. Thanks all :)

I've recently started to use reverse Bergen raises and i've received comments from my partners than i was overbidding. I first read than it was Bergen dummy points that count but it seems most play only HCP. So on a 1 spade opening and holding say xxxx AQ JTxxx xx, this hand is 7HCP, so a 3D raise using HCP. But using bergen dummy hand evaluation it's 10 dummy points, good for a 3clubs response. Wich one should i use. The same goes with splinter and jacoby 2NT. With 10 hcp and 13 dummy points should i bid 2NT or 3 clubs?

thank you all for your responses!! Very appreciated!!!

I have started resolving these deals. I m done with the beginners one, I m at the second level. Thanks for answering, I think I was looking for places to improve my competitive bidding skills rather than my play of the hand/carding.

Hi there, kind of new here. I've started playing and studying bridge for about a year now. I've tried to play in MP daily and weekly tournament on BBO getting results of 51-53-57-61% in my last 4 tournaments. For a beginner I think it's kind of decent (isn't it?). But when I play Express tournament, my results are pretty lower thant these and I'm not sure it's the right place for me to progess. Seems the field is crowed with great players and even if they are annonced at 2/1, seems the majority is playing SAYC or other systems I'm not familiar with. Should I continue playing for fun against the robot to improve my game? I play for now, 15-17 NT, 2/1 game forcing, 4th suit forcing, 4 suits transfers, stayman, NMF, Jacoby 2 NT, 1430 RKC, Smolen,inverted minor raises, takeout doubles, negative doubles and support doubles. When you are playing with a partner playing a different system and time is limited to 30 seconds, how should it work. Supposed I open 1 spades and my partner has 11 points and 5 clubs. Should he respond 2 clubs and we play in his system or should he respond 1 NT because I'm the opener. Or some play 1430 and some play 3014 RKC. When one of the 2 bid 4NT, wich system is on? Is there conventions for when partner don't play in the same system? I'll continue to work on my game, studying and watching videos but I was wondering what might be the best place to play (type of online games).