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:lol: And the modest bid 4h after that kind of understanding is especially cute.

Thanks

Only 1 part is played for now. I am playing in NY regional evenings with week, will try to complete the second part of challenge at after it ... unless fell asleep in the middle of the hand :)

In paid tournaments, like ACBL speedballs, Directors are doing the job and assigning what needs to be assign. Sometimes they made mistakes (rarely) and you need to chat TD asking to review the adjustment. In free tournaments could be everything.

Wackojack / Olegru 3rd part http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:5b60d2e2.3ec1.11e7.b134.0cc47a39aeb4-1495438584&u=olegru Olegru Score: 65.63% Rank: 1/2 (10.5 : 5.5)

Everything is correct, except, I believe, wrong link.

Olegru / Gerardo http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:936c5ace.3b6e.11e7.b134.0cc47a39aeb4-1495073176&u=olegru Total 51 9 olegru Score: 42.00

Heart76 / Olegru http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:fdf4d876.399c.11e7.b134.0cc47a39aeb4-1494873209&u=olegru Olegru 63 / Heart76 33 olegru Score: 30.00

Cherdano / Olegru Second part http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:bd675778.3947.11e7.b134.0cc47a39aeb4-1494836594&u=olegru Cherdano 8.5 / Olegru 7.5

Second set already played out, I lost, I believe, by 1. Cannot access to playing site now to give a link. I am planning to play third set tonight and the last tomorrow evening. I hope it will worked out. Sorry, slow play was my fault. I forgot that after losing in one knockout bracket I am not already out, but moved to another bracket and wasted couple of days.

Yes, sorry. Was a bit busy with not-bridge related stuff. Will play today after office hours (~in 6 hours should be completed).

Icycookie / Olegru second part olegru Score: 43.75% Rank: 2/2 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:25889989.3271.11e7.b134.0cc47a39aeb4-1494084720&u=olegru

Do I have a hallucinations or written explanation of 2 ♥ re-bid after 2♣ opening really is weak 2? :)

1. Demonstrated by opponents emotions (and especially absence of emotions) is not reliable source to judge about their agreements. She could be not an emotional person; or she could try to keep peace in partnership and do not question decision and explanations of partner in presents of opponents; or she could temporary accept that partners idea about bidding they never discussed before because she needs some time to digest it. In each of that cases there were no prior agreement or discussions, our assumptions is wrong. Also do not forget that idiotic efforts to criminalize bluffs made many not very experienced people not willing to accept that bid was bluff. They are avoiding to say they psyched by any cost. In order to hide they did something perfectly legal (psyched), they happy to pretend they did something illegal (bid was a part of the system ... not disclosed and sometimes not even legal in ACBL land). Funny, ah.. 2. Never heard about complains that bid in that position (in natural bidding) was too weak.

Something in that thread made me uncomfortable. I’ll try to explain. 1♥ reply was a 100% natural bid, required no alert. Was it alerted? My guess it was not. Why somebody decided to ask for meaning of non-alerted bid? Answer is obvious. 1 ♣ was alerted and explain as a Polish club, so opponents decided to ask about meanings of other bids just in case. It is OK, they clearly entitled. But they certainly would not ask about meaning of un-alerted 1♥ bid in the 1♣ (no alert) – double – 1♥ bidding. As it happened at this particular case, player who bid 1♥ decided to deviate from their system. You can classify his bid as bluff or as a bad bid … doesn’t matter. It presents his opponent the opportunity to build “misinformation case.” They probably even sincerely believe they were misinformed and entitle to redress. Obviously bad explanation of 1♥ bidder (was he pressed to explain his bid?) and absence of protests from his partner made a case looks stronger. Now imagine bidding of the same board on another table. It went exactly the same with exception that 1 ♣ opening was natural. "Sayc", "2/1", "can be short" … whatever. Would anybody ask about meaning of non-alerted 1♥? Would anybody complain about it being too weak? We are clearly in the “just bridge” land. By the way, in a standard bidding it is well known "standard bluff situation". It is a much better chance for “standard bidders” to have undisclosed understanding that 1♥ bid could be psych. As I wrote earlier, it is much more dangerous to bluff after partner’s 1♣ opening in the Polish club.

If they play Polish club, 6-9 points is a correct explanation for 1♥ bid in a free position. 1 ♥ bid with 1 point is bluff or just bad bridge. I would say it is especially bad in the Polish club context. How good players are they? I am curious to see openers hand and the rest of bidding. Do they play WJS?

Eagles123 / Olegru http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:dbe9fb90.2a53.11e7.b134.0cc47a39aeb4-1493192531&u=olegru olegru Score: 60.00% I believe last challenge (phoenix214) left for me. Issued

Mkgnao / Olegru http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:5126e406.2ba1.11e7.b134.0cc47a39aeb4-1493335750&u=olegru olegru Score: 45.00% Hijunny132 / Olegru http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:e9062f3f.2d50.11e7.b134.0cc47a39aeb4-1493521118&u=olegru olegru Score: 55.00%

Cherdano / Olegru http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:f0ca1a6d.26d4.11e7.b134.0cc47a39aeb4-1492808167&u=olegru olegru Score: 65.00%

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I'm in.

Thanks

According to Nicolas Hammond http://bridgewinners.com/article/view/bz-signals-and-codes-explained/

I have a goal. I am trying to make my robot partner to lose his calm and chat me what it is thinking about my bidding. It did not work well so far, but nobody can say I did not try. :)

Thanks, I got very lucky there.