OleBerg

How is it pronounced?

One trick to EW. And a stern look at South. If the round has been called, and East has the time to say: "Come on we've got to hurry up, partner's going to keep clubs"., South is playing his cards to slow. The tactic of doing this, hoping opponents will missdiscard under time-pressure, has been seen used. And anyway, South can't have any problems that merits his not playing in a reasonable tempo. (I've had a hard-disk crash, so I wont bother to look up which law that says you cannot play slow for no reason.)

Expect an XXX rating.

Can't help thinking of the incident from approx. one year ago, from a tournament in Europe. The incident is most remembered for the match where the german team quit ½-way thriugh the last segment. But the match before, a player (Wladow, I think), had single-handedly staged a 60-imp comeback. Fortunately for him it was under circumstances where he could not have UI. So sometimes crazy bids are made by high-level players. And sometimes they work. Why shouldn't it happen to someone in ACBL-land, once in a while. And as an aside: I haven't delved into this, but reading Wolff's book is not convincing to me. He presents to few facts, and expect people to simply believe him, because of who he is.

If it looks like a duck, it could be duck. Equal level conversion. Maybe 2♣ is used for all strong hands.

Voted 6♣, but immidiately regretted. 6♥ is my bid, no reason to give opponents space to communicate. And 6♣ wont really put partner in a good spot, to make the decision over apossible 6♠.

Roses are red and violets are blue, I'm a schizophreniac and I'm that also.

He is probably hiding in the same place, as the person who constructed my $100+ pots, where the handles get to hot to touch during normal cooking. (No, I don't pay $100 for a pot, but my sweet mother went to the store, and asked for the best for her son.)

For the sake of the forum, I'll never tell you about my dates.

It's a cool ship, but the hyperdrive is much to unstable.

5: Tintins moonrocket. (Destination Moon/Explorers on the Moon) 4: Tie-fighter. (Star-Wars) 3: Nostromo. (Alien) 2: Eagle. (Space 1999) 1: Star-destroyer. (Star-Wars)

I'm not so hot in this area, as I Play a strange convention called transfer-overcalls. But I would like a bid that sets hearts, and is forcing for a round. 3♣ seems like a good candidate.

Agree. (I would probably not have noticed the 14.th card though.)

+1 Incredible I have never heard of that before. (Credible that I haven't thought of it.)

I wanted to win the "Most silly comment of the year" award, but how am I going to top this???

Opposite a lot of nondescript hands where partner will pass if you do, you do want to defend doubled. You really expect partner to bid or double on xx, Axxxx, Jxx, Jxx for example or xx, Axxxx, Kx, xxxx. If you think partner doesn't bid 4H on this, there are plenty of other possibilities. And opposite a lot of nondescript hands where partner will pass if you do, you do want to defend undoubled. By not forcing opener to bid anything but pass, on hands where he wants to defend, you can eat your cake, and have a part of it. On many of those hands where you could succesfully double, your wide-ranging 4♥ have already given you a plus-score, on a hand where you would normally go minus. Of course nothing is bulletproof, but a "penalty-like" double seems to take care of the least amount of problems.

He's not allowed to hold xx, AKx, Kxxx, Kxxx or xxx, AKxxxx, xxx, K ? Maybe, but they are borderline. Any losses sustained from defending 4♠X on these are collateral. "Double = I would like to bid on, pass only if you are heavily inclined to defend." Makes the most sense to me.

Pass wtp. Partner has told you that slam is not a possibilety, and that she has a very good idée about what to do if the opponents compete. No reason to overrule with an ordinary maximum hand.

Saw the last hour of "The Forgotten" on TV. Thought the last few Nicolas Cage movies had set a new lowest standard. I was wrong.

At MP's I'd pass. Apart from the trick I normally blow on the opening lead, this will be my last mistake on the hand.

Yep Nope. Law 23. Sigh. :unsure: Ok. :)

Yep Nope. Law 23.

It was a joke, so no. Seriously: As it is, I have absolutely no way of knowing whether he is overrated, underrated or rated. And now for something completely different: A man with two noses.

If you consider it a binary way of percieving things, I was as close to being right as I could. ;)

One has been the best architect in the world for 20+ years and the other is lame and dumb?!? I agree that Hamman is overrated, but lame and dumb???