Tomi2

MixedTeams 2011 in Poznan, played with a young and even more unexperienced Partner than me. First of all in the swiss stage we needed a miracle to qualify for the KO, we had two good sessions in the end and so we got to the KO, unseeded, and played 32 boards against the italian stars. Madala-Rimsted was their anchor pair, Ferraro, Sementa, Duboin's wife and a sponsor played one segment each. After finishing the last board (3NT+1) I had a look at the vugraph operator's screen, we were leading by one imp and Madala had a start that looked like two overtricks... but my teammates found a good switch to scare him and make him cashout for just... the next round we lost by the amount of a TD decision/appeal that could well have been decided in our favor :( next would have been the Zimmermann team in the quaterfinals ;)

I am quite confortable with Tomiwood responses to the keycard ask :rolleyes: 1st step: 0, 2 or 4 Keycards, next step asks the trumpqueen 2nd step: 1KC with OR 3KC w/o OR 5 with trump queen 3rd step: 1KC w/o OR 3 with OR 5 w/o trump queen after the 2nd and 3rd step, because of using kickback and minorwood we can ask for kings below 5suit very often additionally we gain the 4th response step for "I don't have too many keycards but I do like my hand very much" for example if you have a weak hand with no keys but a void and long trumps or some outside tricksource partner can not see jumps in Tomiwood show "enough keycards and a specific void in this suit" 5suit signoffs after all steps are "pass or correct" same as in 14-30 when you sometimes cant read the 1 or 4... actually because of showing the queen directly I had fewer spots where i could not read partners resonse compared to the 1 or 4 accidents. A player with 2 keycards and now trump queen in his hand must be cautious because he might not be able to read partners response

2S = to play for me, so that's the hand for...

I am used to play the other round, partner will be on lead and 5 clubs invites him to lead a club, to compeate till 6 dias if they outbid us, or even further but not to pass... sry guys, i am dealt 9 suits in 4th position too seldom so I have the agreement that such bids are with fit

first they must survive Bocchi-Madala... what a match in the round of 32, Hamman-Bocchi, who played so many bermuda bowl finals in the last 20 years

this would require the player must be able to decide what to do over: pass, double, 4nt, 5clubs and 5dias in 10 seconds

to the last sentence: why should 1♠-3NT = something aritfical, say "club splinter" be alerted and 1♠-4♣ = dia-splinter not?

disagree to the first two parts of your statement. Not everybody uses the stop cards in Europe as the rules want us to do because many are correctly thinking that the rules are not good on this point. In non competitive auctions for example imo there is no use of the stop card, for example 1♠-2♠-4NT, or take pass - 1nt - pass - 3nt... why spending 10seconds here and maybe get penalties for playing slow later, while in other copmetitive auctions with no skip bid stop cards would be usesfull but aren't in use, for example stop 4♠ - (5♥) - thhhiiiinnnk - double/pass. the border "skip bid" for (non-)use of the stop card is as randomly as "no alert above 3nt"

new try then :) Piekarek-Smirnov

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what would you think is the reason that more open players went down here compared to seniors and la... women? when I watched the board as it was played in vug, around half of the tables finished it with kinda 50% made for the guys and 75% made for the other competitions. of course it might be, that "worse defenders" misdefended, but actually ALL tables played it from north and ALL got the spade lead, and I can't imagine any non-open had more chance to "misdefend" (e.g. throwing a dia) here. Or am I wrong?

ask Michael Gromöller from Germany, he runs the German bridge camp for Juniors and people who feel like juniors, like himself ;)

so, after winning last years BB prediction contest I am first again? goooo Monaco and stoooop the rest :) maybe I should become professional bridge bookmarker :)

did I miss something or did nobody mentioned Kaplan/Rubens? everytime I go down in a slam or a game that was not percentage I see I had at least 0.5 KR points less then I expected (in fact I overbid) KR is like a miracle to me, its always right

hmm, after leading 72-0 halway against Poland their plan seems to be to win every match 25-0 :)