Tactical Bidding

[Califdude]

Actually two related questions I'd like to ask of the expert players here.

 

A. Do the players who post on this board play BBO tournaments, including the ACBL sanctioned tournaments on BBO?

Almost never?

Now and then?

Frequently?

 

B. Bridge columns occasionally report on situations in which international teams make tactical bids, by which I mean bids that they would not normally make but do so because they are down in the score and hope to catch up with a big score on the hand. These bids usually take the form of gambling stretches to game or slam, possibly played redoubled, sometimes gambling doubles of vulnerable opponents. (The bridge equivalent of what we call a Hail Mary pass in American football.)

 

Assume I am playing in a BBO tournament with IMP scoring and with only two hands to go am not looking good. Do you think it is reasonable to make a tactical bid:

1. Playing as an individual. Do you see an ethical problem here in that if the bid fails I have dragged partner down with me?

2. Playing with a familiar pard.

 

As always, thanks for replies.

[Fluffy]

I never play ACBL tournaments

 

You are free to gamble as much as you want on individuals, ethically you should not get the advantage that your partner knows your style, but that is so extremelly hard to calculate that you should just forget about it.