babalu1997

weak jump overcall to 3d you perhaps need a new partner

ins't pass a bid?

Many polish players also play SA or other system, and then they do not alert. They open 1♣ , no alert, I look at their profile, says sa or pclub, I ask, I get rude comments (Are you stupid?) Many bulgarians, chinese and indonesians play precision club, they do not alert. I actually play some prepared defenses for precision 1 ♣, polish 1 ♣. When one of these players play against me and open 1 club or 1 diamond, i am not stupid or a weak player, I just want to know what the hell 1 club means so i can use the prepared defense if need be. Sometimes the director comes and someone is booted, either the jerk who does not alert or me when the opponent jerk tells the director I am stalling-- just as well i am booted because by then i am rather pissed off. My impression is that players like these are not ignorant, they are just unethical and mean.

well i never eat mangoes. i grew up in the city of mangoes a mayor or governor in 1920 imported hundreds of trees from india, so you get mangoes for free, they also can fall on your head, so if you are waiting for the bus and hear crack, move quickly. Occasioannly they fall on your car's windshield, at night when the car is parked, or when you are stopped at the red light and cant move. when i was about 6 years old, there was a rain storm coming and a lot of wind, mangoes were falling and we kids went outside and collected hundreds of them. the house was full of mangoes and my mother did not know how to make jam or chutney out of them, the mangoes rotted and we were spaniked because the flies and mosquitoes that resulted. i have a natural fear of mangoes. the mangpes also serve a social purpose because in times of hardship you can survive on cassavameal porridge and manhoes, acai for dinner with cassava meal, but now that people say acai is a perfect food, the price skyrocketed and they are destroyuing the acai berry trees.

I have been thinking about this upvoying and downvoting thing. Can they affect one's credit rating? Sometimes i like a post because it is amusing, not because it us a serious duscusstuin about lack of tempo. I would like a lol button, and it is corresponding :( cousin.

I have recently suffered the following bids 1 club by me- 1 heart by opp - 2 hearts by partner I learned that as a cuebid, forcing and likely support for my suit or simply a stopper ask The guy had qjt 5th in hearts!!! Now today I held a singleton heart, 5 spades and a very lonely jack, and the bidding goes 1 heart by partner- 1 spade by rho - pass by me- 2 clubs by lho - 4clubs by partner i expected him to have a freak hand with a void in clubs, but no he had kqjtx of clubs i have seen this from several players, but have never seen any book yelling people to bid like this? coincidence or am i going insane?

the queen is wasted i dont open 1nt

i once knew a man with a business card who had many ca[pital letters follwing his name, something like joe schmuck, ESQ, RN, BSC , MSC, MBA, RTIII, BFD, .... the footer of the business card stated: "A man of 1001 occupations" it was bold, it was italic. Matmat is his first cousin.

yes you can down vote there is a minus next to the up vote but there is a daily limit of sown votes, i think 5

is there such a thinh as the nash equilibrium for the game of bridge? Sometimes rank beginners steal the score. I was playing with an 8 year old boy as a partber. At first he had a strong hand and he opened at the 3 level (more cards more open). After the hand was over i yold him, we open at the 3 level when we have no cards to scare the opps. A couple of hands later he opened 3 Clubs. He had a complete yarborough with 4 cards in clubs and a 4-1 fit. He played 3 clubs for a -250 score, undoubled, the opps had a slam, but had no idea how to defend, then accused the boy of psyching. I say he just upset the bash equilibrium cart. Does that make sense?

when my computers died, i removed their heart (hard drive). Where they had an after-life, they were installed in the new computer. we were told to keep the drives to secure sensitive number stored in them-- bank and credit numbers, etc... is it ok to bury them in the backyard? (we do use well water) thanks

Thanks, I do have that book. For Kaplan queens and jacks in the opps bid suit are assigned increased defense values dpending on their poaition. But many authors before Robson and segal, have the tackled the topic of shifting hand valuation, with different terminology, you can even get references to it from Mollo's Declarer Play Technique. And, of course, from Lawrence's Complete book of hand valuation.

The expert is not receiving $1 to play, that is the tourney fee. He would be in fact playing for no pay. Once it was said that the chances an expert will be waiting to play with us mortals for free would be the same of getting called for a date with Jennifer Lopez or Brad Pitt. However, there are reputable experts who are available for play and pay tourneys at BBO. I guarantee you they are not loitering in the partnership desk. If you hang around places like the teaching clubs, get references from other players and you will find a respectable teacher. You will likely have to compensate him for his time and expertise in addition to the $1 tourney fee.

perhaps not with that exact terminology, but edgar kaplan in the early 60s taught about the difference between quick tricks and defensive tricks, and even offered translation ruloes. the more distributional the hand, the more offensive it is plus all the discussion about neutral hands for offense/defense if memory does not fail me some books by ron klinger discuss this issue too.

Thus has already been invented at bbo windows server. it is called minibridge you all can go there and practice

What he means is a pebcat tournament player reports a transgression of the tournament rules to pebcat. Pebcat then makes him an enemy, and sends him into the wilderness to be swallowed by the anaconda. The few who survive being eaten by the anaconda often beg to return to pebcat's games, but there is along line at the pearly gates.

Perhaps there is a change for those who use the web version, I think there is still a large number of active members on windows version and this info is not available to them. I have seen people who state that they will not accept invitations from players below a minimum completion rate. As for me, I accept invites with 75% percent and over completion, and when i am host, I accept players with 80% or more completion. I have been invited by players with as low as 29% completion rate, and that is truly ridiculous, because as someone pointed up before the completion rate itself is biased upwards .

how does one go about getting a bridge book published? Is it thtough and ol bridge buy network? tx

are you a crazy, or just crazy?

one of my partner always says this about rating pairs but says also that no bridge organization will consider such a thing for pecuniary reasons

ah i should have edited, the partner bid 3nt, i let it ride

Opposite a takeout double from partner, I had a pretty good hand, but the 3nt bid did not smell too good, so I passed. Good old fashioned defensive bidding, partner bids, silly, take the zero, let him be declarer. The bidding went p-p-1♥-dbl-p-3♣ Edit: -p-3nt [hv=pc=n&s=saj86hqj65dj97ck3&w=st953ha9dt8652cq5&n=sq42h32da3ca87642&e=sk7hkt874dkq4cjt9]399|300[/hv] I did not say anything, until, until, partner observed that bidding was horrible. -- You mean yours? , I agree -- no, the jump, the jump was horrible -- i jumped, standard response, I had a pretty good hand and you had a fit for me -- no, all i promised was 2 four card majors geesh, the opener just opened 1 hearts, if by any chance I have 4 hearts in my hand, things are just super, I will just play a 5-0 trump break When one makes a stupid bid, it is just best to remain silent.

“I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.” Grouch Marx Once I happened on to a World Class partner in the main bridge club. We argued about some mundane bidding issue, I was right,but he pulled rank: He: I am world class, you know. I: no, you're not, if you don't have a star you are not world class. He: I am. How do you get a star? I: you have to ask Fred Gitelman. He: Fred Gitelman is my personal friend, I have played with him many times. Tomorrow I will log with a star and show you. I did not even make a note of his name, but the next day he did say hello to me: He: Hello, can you give me Fred gitelman's phone number? I: where is your star? He: I have to call Fred to get it. Do you know his phone number? I: Aren't you his personal friend? You call him at home. I don't know if he called, he never said hello again.

the only thing really expensive is the cheese the rest of the items you can find routinely in my kitchen ( I buy the quality olive oil by the case, 1case=24 1 liter bottles) the labour is the most expensive, but you could choose to make the soup when visiting relatives or when relatives are visiting you, so you put them to work.

circa 1961 There comes a time in almost every bridge game when the hostess brings out the coffee and cake. that's when the postmortems fly thick and fast, when praise an reproach are dealt out. How do you handle the postmortem? Has anybody given you advice on this vital part of the game? Most of the textbooks carry you through bidding and play, but they leave you to your own devices just when you are most in need of expert advice. Be Friendly Always begin the postmortem with a friendly word of praise for your partner. "you played very well tonight," may seem an uninspired beginning, but it is still much favored by experts. "I've never seen you play so well," is much better, of course, particularly if your partner has actually played like a catfish with blind staggers. With this one sentence, you soothe your partner and make it clear to the opponents that your evening has been one long struggle. Accuracy Pays No matter how skillful you are, your partner will sometimes get the first word in. "Where on earth did you find that last bid?" she may ask. Now you must move quickly. your partner doesn't expect an answer to this type of question; in fact, she is just leading up to her opinion of that bid an perhaps a few others. Let her get well started, and the postmortem is lost. Tell her just where you found the bid in question. Don't say you found it in a book. Name the book and give a page number. Incidentally, stay away from round numbers. There may actually be something veyr important on page 200 of a book, but page 187 sounds more convincing. Accuracy of this kind is veyr important. Staging a Diversion If your partner happens to be your spouse, you may have trouble with this page 187 routine. It wears a bit thin after the tenth time you have used it. Be ready to divert attention to the opponents. Congratulate one of them, for example, on using the same kind of bid very successfully earlier in the evening. Then praise his partner for sizing up the situation correctly and making the correct decision. by this time both opponents should be on your side, and your partner will be glad to join in a discussion of how well they handled the situation. Naturally, you mustn't let your spouse see this column, I've already hidden it from mine.