TylerE

I might be available, if I qualify for GNT. Going for district finals next weekend, and if my team advances I will be going to Vegas. The u1500 is the other main event I'm interested in, and it starts the day after the GNT ends.

1♣. Very close to WTP? status for me.

To be honest, the average quality of bridge in the slowball's pretty much sucks too. Sad but true. Also, in speedballs the vast majority of times I've had rounds not finished with time left over, it's because of people disconnecting multiple times, going AFK, etc.

[hv=n=sxxxhaqxxdkqjxxca&w=saqtxhxdaxxckqxxx&e=sxxxhktxdxcjxxxxx&s=skj9hj7432d7432c2]399|300|[/hv] 1100 might be a bit much, but it's not too hard to come up with layouts where 4h has no real prayer.

I'm nervous. I can see 500, 800, maybe even 1100, when opps haven't bid game yet. Even 200 vs 130 is still no good.

Pass. While at first glance it's tempting to go slamming, you need p to have near perfection. I'd be much more inclined to go forward with an odd number of ♣.

What was your FIRST bid?

Assuming I'm playing with someone who knows how to balance, pass. This is NOT a strong hand over a preempt. It's a decent hand. If forced to bid, 3♦. 2NT should be more like a good 16 to a bad 19 for me.

At the highest levels success is perhaps 80% bidding, 20% play, because everyone at that level will play and defend almost perfectly.

No. A one round force is exactly that.

I want a split answer: Fact: If it's my first rebid Good Guide: Thereafter

[hv=n=st98xxhxxxdxxxckx&w=s32hxdxcqjt987654&e=shkqjtxxdkqjtxxxc&s=sakqjxxhaxxdaxcax]399|300|Make 5♠ on a Q♣ lead.[/hv]

Except that 1♥ - 2NT in SAYC is Jacoby.

Never heard of a webspider with flash though.

You know hearts aren't good, because the hand was posted :)

I'm on most evenings (US Eastern time),which I think would fall in your time range. Look me up online.

Easier playing a strong club: 1C - 1NT 2C - 2NT 3C - 3S 4C - 4NT 6N Opener showing a strong hand and then relayed, north showed, in order: GF, 5+ Clubs 6 clubs, one of A/K/Q 2nd Round Diamond control 1st Round Heart Control

♠J ♥ -void ♦ KQJT987 ♣ AQ985 p - p - 1♥ - X 2♠ - p - 4♠ - 5♦ p - p - 5♥ - 6♦. +920 when p flops with the xx of ♦, A of ♠, and all but two of the missing clubs, including the K I just intended it to be a good sac on a freak...

It's really amazing how far this has come. Just for kicks, after not having a linux install handy for about a year (What can I say, felt like doing some lisp hacking...), installed the latest Ubuntu 8.04 beta. Installed wine, downlaoded bbo_setup.exe, ran without a hitch, and once I installed symbol.ttf, BBO runs absolutely flawlessly. Just like on Windows. Oh, one difference...the font rendering is nicer :) I can finally comfortably switch my main OS over to Linux (my preference) since I no longer need to have Windows around to run BBO properly.

I would be hesitant to add platinum requirements for anything Gold or lower. Above that, sure, fine, but certainly silver, and likely gold should not require platinum. I wouldn't be opposed to adding related color requirements to silver and gold though. Say 125 silver for silver, and 250 gold for gold.

Here, 6♠ I probably would have bid a simple 6♦ on the first round. EDIT: And, no, pass over 5♥ isn't forcing.

I gave this some thought, and here's what I've come up with. Add a new level to friends: "partners". Allow a table host to designate a pair of seats as a "pair" or some such, either leaving both open, or specifying a single player for one seat. When a player trys to sit at one of these seats (only allowed if they have an available (e.g. online but not playing)), that player will get a pop-up box showing which of their registered partners are available. They can then pick one and send an invite, which would appear to partner, similar to a team game invite. They'd then join as a pair. Allow the sitting player, say, 30 seconds to invite a partner and then free the seat up.

Some times the best bid is PASS. Take the money.

Ewwwwwwwwww. I would absolutely refuse to play in such an event. That's not bridge, or anything even close to it. If you want a game that doesn't give proper thinking time, play blitz chess or something.

Really, the hand is handled much better if responder supresses the anemic spade suit and just makes a GF heart raise. 1♥ - 2NT (no 3/4 ♣ bid here... preempting into a GF auction at R/W??) 4♥ - ap