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

But what if you do have a problem at trick 1? You can't tell partner this directly or by failing to announce that you dont have a problem.

Thanks andy that is the point i wanted to make. It often makes sense to take time to develop a plan at trick one. I would have ruffed with the 8 and gone down. A spade ruff is going to be neccesary and at some point rho is going to get in and repeat. If i ruff with the q and j on those two occasions my chances of losing two trump tricks go way up

Thanks andy that is the point i wanted to make. It often makes sense to take time to develop a plan at trick one. I would have ruffed with the 8 and gone down. A spade ruff is going to be neccesary and at some point rho is going to get in and repeat. If i ruff with the q and j on those two occasions my chances of losing two trump tricks go way up

I don't know why people are talking about bidding 7c and 15 top tricks missing four clubs to the QJ I'm thinking 2c 2d (not a bust) 2s 3c 3s 5nt (pick a slam) 6s

I am making the practical bid of 5D. Partner has promised some values and four hearts and that's all i need for game. Hopefully if partner has extras or prime cards he will raise to 6.

Toss up between a club or a diamond. Not leading hearts and not underleading my ace of spades without reasoning

I opened this hand in an ACBL tourney (clearly announced as 10-12) Tx Tx AJTxx KQxx Because in her mind 10-12 nt range was disallowed and bidding 1nt with two doubletons was cheating. She called the director over to the table but (unfortunately) one never arrived

South's bid is waaaay worse. As others have said, only a flat 9 count is nothing remotely close to a limit raise. North's action is OK since he has a several prime controls (aces and kings tends to be worth more). I think it's a coin flip between 3S and 4S after the X, but a simple pass after 2S.

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Here was a hand from an IMP tourney ♠ KQxx ♥ AKJ ♦ Kxx ♣ Qxx ♠ Ax ♥ QT98x ♦ Axx ♣ AT9 in 6♥ you can pitch a diamond on dummy's spade. For the clubs, it's KJx in RHO's hand. So running the queen works, and less likely is low to the queen and then finesse the jack but that works. But a lot of players are going to try cashing the ace and then up to the queen, losing two clubs. This is a total guess, and if the guess isn't made I think director needs to assign an average board. I sometimes wonder if people intentionally slow play tough hands to get the double dummy result. I've argued with a TD or two and gotten justice before, but in a game this big some people will lose out.