runewell

I was pretty happy with the previous version. No landscape mode is a real turn off.

Thanks and well done

Q1 runewell 28, ntchai 15 Q2 ntchai 6, runewell 2 Q3 ntchai 18, runewell 13 Q4 runewell 26, ntchai 2 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:90decf03.5e06.11e7.be39.0cc47a39aeb4-1498876795&u=runewell runewell wins 69-41, thanks ntchai for a good match! There is a regional all week next week in the town I live, so I might be all bridged out and ... wait for it ... vulnerable!

Q1 runewell 28, ntchai 15 Q2 ntchai 6, runewell 2 Q3 ntchai 18, runewell 13 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:ad8c896f.5d8d.11e7.be39.0cc47a39aeb4-1498824874&u=runewell runewell leads 43-39, down to the wire

Q1 runewell 28, ntchai 15 Q2 ntchai 6, runewell 2 <- I believe the second lowest scoring set of the event thus far. http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:e8aa2055.5c81.11e7.be39.0cc47a39aeb4-1498709868&u=runewell runewell leads 30-21

Q1 runewell 28, ntchai 15 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:70b1cef4.5b83.11e7.be39.0cc47a39aeb4-1498600574&u=runewell

BARMAR what huh???

Sign me up. Phil got my attention by posting on BW by the way.

When I am playing on my iPad and the tourney finishes, it says "The table has been closed" and it becomes impossible to see how my last board(s) have performed. Why is this? Can't it offer some amount of update as time passes so I don't have to wait another four minutes to see how I did? (First world problems)

I'm not sure I buy any of the explanations presented here. I think considerations of Kx - K x x K - Kx are a good APPROXIMATION of what's going on. To be completely accurate, I think there has to be consideration of how all the remaining suits are likely to break in the opponents' hands. WARNING: MATH AHEAD. The location of 11 hearts and 15 non-hearts is already known, so let's say you will draw for the hand on the left with the remaining 2 hearts and 24 non-hearts. How many ways can you draw Kx of hearts? There are 2C2 = 1 way to draw Kx and 24C11 = 2,496,144 ways to draw the remaining non-hearts. How many ways can you draw no hearts? There are 2C0 = 1 way to draw no hearts and 24C13 = 2,496,144 ways to draw the remaining non-hearts. What about a stiff heart? There are 2C1 = 2 ways to draw a single heart (K or x) and 24C12 = 2,704,156 ways to draw the remaining non-hearts. # Ways to get a 2-0 split = 2,496,144 + 2,496,144 = 4,992,288 # ways to get a 1-1 split = 2,704,156 x 2 = 5,408,312 Probability of 1-1 split = 5,408,312 / (4,992,288 + 5,408,312) = 5,408,312 / 10,400,600 = 52.0%. :D

After the 2C rebid, in my methods I can bid 4D as 1430. Partner would respond 4N showing 2 key cards with no queen of clubs. We don't have the queen of trump, and I figure partner for six clubs (could be 5 or 7) then we have a slightly less than 50% chance of a club loser. But then, that's only 7 of partner's HCP. He rates to fill in something somewhere. I think 6C is as ambitious as I want to be.

In an ACBL tourney (Hand #6 from a MP tourney I'm playing) After one pass I opened 1♣. LHO bid 1♦ and partner bid 1♥. I went to show four spades by bidding 1♠ but the explanation of the bid is that it shows 5, just as if I making a 1♠ opening bid. That can't be right... a 1NT bid shows 15-17, a 2♥ bid is weak. It's like the first round of bidding never existed!

I'm bidding 2♠ directly over 1NT. Even though my ♥K is suspect, it takes up bidding room. It could very well buy the auction.

My ACBL IMP game is going ho-hum until the last round when GIB opens 1♥ and I have: ♠ AKQTxx ♥ J9 ♦ AQx ♣ Qx I make a jump shift and eventually gamble that 7♠ will come home. Dummy comes down with: ♠ Jx ♥ AKTxxx ♦ Jxx ♣ Ax ♠ AKQTxx ♥ J9 ♦ AQx ♣ Qx GIB makes the lead I expected: a club. I win the ace, play a spade to my hand and lead the jack of hearts to the ace, getting the 2 on my left and the 7 on my right. Then on the run of the spades LHO tosses the six and eight of hearts, leaving me with no choice but to win 16 IMPs and launch into 1st place (the game hasn't quite finished yet). It was Qx on my right. LHO did have the ♦K to guard but would be a more effective opponent if GIB recognized that pitching hearts is wrong.

Well I didn't realize the director had an exchange with this player so i stand corrected there. Nevertheless the accusations of cheating came to me after the hand (which was the last round of the tourney). I didn't mean to misstate anything, I'm just annoyed that's all