TylerE

Don't knock it, necessarily. We had an older couple here (both were over 90) that played 4 card majors, staymen, transfers, and blackwood, and generally bid like Charles Goren after a few bottles of wine. Suffice it to say their auctions were....erratic at the best of times. Yet they still would manage a respectable placing (e.g. top 3 in Flight A) about one session out of 4...the wife especially could play the spots off when on her game.

But NS *are* at fault. They didn't verify the identity of the EW pair. Now, if, say, the guide cards had been wrong, that's a different matter.

2. I would make "subsetted" calls legal. What I mean by this is that given an allowed bid "A", say opening 2♠ to show 5 or more spades and 6-11, a bid "A2" which includes some subset of hands allowed by "A", is also allowed. For instance, a 2♠ opening showing 5♠ and a 4 card or longer minor, 6-11.

Why Fluffy? That really gains none of the benefits of 4 way transfers - the whole point is to be able to pre/super accept. If you can't dot hat, why bother?

They may have worked well 50 years ago. In the modern environment where uncontested part score auctions are rare, they prevent you from making the most useful possible bid, raising 1M to 2M, exactly when it is most important to do so post-haste. PS: Try to find a single top-level pair who plays them. Good luck with that.

I think constructive raises are a very poor treatment, in fact one of the very few (Along with Stolen bid doubles and Mini-Roman 2♦) that I outright refuse to play. I have never been convinced that it offers any real advantage, and it has definite disadvantages. This is true about most conventions that treat point count as more important than shape or hand texture.

But that's exactly the point! if it's "Zero Tolerance" there is no room for judgement.

That's more of a "ACBL is Dumb/stuck in the 1950s/would ban mini-NT if they could" thing though.

Look into some sort of chin/mouth operated mouse maybe? Actually come to think of it, crazy as it might sound I bet, assuming he still has full use of his feet and legs, that he could learn to mouse with his feet.

I just found out that my local partner can't play on Saturday, so I am available as a single, if needed.

1. Much improved bidding when responder has a minor suit. 2. Practically nothing, except 1N-2♣-2M-2N is ambiguous as to wether or not the other major is held. 3. 100% absolutely.

That's not that insane actually. Moscito is also first step positive, second step negative, and it works very well. Of course, that's over a 1♣ opening...

May I suggest that you are grossly oversimplifying and likely not even close to understanding the issue?

So What do you open with: xxx - AKQJx AKQJx ?

I've played it. It works well. Probably my favorite of any of the methods proposed. The heaviest I remember making the 2♥ response was on a balanced 9 count. We righly kept out of slam that much of the field bid, missing only one ace. Of course, you were also missing the K in the same suit...

Much better to just define the bid as what it actually means e,g, A or K+/no A or K.

I don't much like point ranges, as on 2♣ auctions imo A > K >> Q >> J = T

I might be interested. I'm usually online roughly 7PM-12PM EST. Played many varities from vanilla Wei to Berkowitz with transfer positives to Polish, MOSCITO, etc.

I don't rescue partner. Period.

I don't think it matters that much, except that I think that "point steps" are strictly inferior. I've played the others in various partnerships, and don't have strong feelings.

i forgot the exact score, but it was like 105-70ish. 1st half was quite close, 2nd we gave some up.

North ♠AQxxxx ♥AJT ♦- ♣QJxx South ♠KJxx ♥Kx ♦QJx ♣AKxx Propose an auction. IMP scoring. North deals. East bids 2♦ or 3♦ if possible

I sort of see it as an oppurtunity for those like myself who enjoy the rare oppurtunity to play "real bridge" but realistically aren't ever going to make a national team (or be part of a serious top bracket team). I do agree that many pros wouldn't be interested, but again, this isn't so much about making everyone happy, but serving a niche that the ACBL is doing an extremely poor job of serving currently.

What does partner bid if I open 1♥?

I don't necessarily disagree with that, but I also don't see the problem with it. It could sorta be a "World Poker Tour" of Bridge. Hold a 2 day event once a month maybe 10 months out of the year, and a week long event once or twice a year.