63% to 80% openers!

[Oren Goren]

Before ACBL diluted WELOS (Webster's Extra-Light Openers) by demanding 8 HCP, we opened ALL 8 TP (Total Points; HCP+dist+length) hands in seat one and two.

 

This in very aggressive Atlanta and Wichita duplicates.

 

Different now, of course. Probably only 55%-70%, certainly 60%.

 

Balance before LHO opens. PRE-balance.

Compete before they open. PRE-compete.

Respond to partner at one level lower than other responders. PRE-respond.

 

Open light before they Big Club you. PRO-scribe.

 

Find your 8(+) card fit instantaneously as much as 200% as often as they do.

 

Find the minor suit slams - and some in majors- they don't. (Enabled by structure they don't have.)

 

The unique structure highly defines openers & enables all of the above "safely". (Some protection lost by loss of, say, 6HCP + 5-4 or 6-card hands?)

 

Please mark me "friend" and check out my favorite Convention Card.)

 

Thanks.

[Phil]

Do I get a set of knives if I order now?

[Echognome]

TP = HCP + dist + length

 

So does my x Qxx xxxx xxxxx hand have 2HCP + 1pt dist + 5pts length = 8 worth opening?

 

We will find our best fit, but unfortunately we went doubled down toll free against a part score. Seeing we're in Wichita, at least I can enjoy the barbeque sauce.

[Oren Goren]

TP = HCP + dist + length

 

So does my x Qxx xxxx xxxxx hand have 2HCP + 1pt dist + 5pts length = 8 worth opening?

 

We will find our best fit, but unfortunately we went doubled down toll free against a part score. Seeing we're in Wichita, at least I can enjoy the barbeque sauce.

Your obviously sincere interpretation was accurate as far as you went but you forgot to add in distribution which in your example was 1345, which with 2HCP, 1 dist (actually should be 2)+5pts length gives you a grand slam value of 1353 (actually 1354).

 

Thanks for your helpful response.

 

Just the quality partner I hope to find!

[Oren Goren]

Do I get a set of knives if I order now?

I do take your point.

 

And, because I am returning to the Great Game from a long hiatus and with no remotely current bridge friendships or partnerships and with rusty non-expert status, all I have to offer - to those with eyes to see - is probably the most unique natural system ever, with the most aggressive+constructive bidding ever. EHAA and Moscito, etc are somewhat passive compared to WELOS.

 

(Well, before the ACBL outlawed the most aggressive openers.)

 

However, Larsson evaluated WELOS 8-11 Total Point hands - and 12-15 TPers, etc, as if they were HCP only evaluations and EHAA was rated more aggressive by his measure.

 

And, as opposed to those systems, and virtually everyone's, WELOS was "engineered" to fit its basic structural insight, even using simultaneous equations to assign point limits to the critical bids. No hodge-podge of fiddled limits and conventions is my offering.

 

[ I didn't figure out how to insert a usable URL so please Google "Larsson WELOS"]

 

However, in current negotiations with a dreaded Big Clubber over a system, I have given thought to improvements (well, changes) that alleviated the single 2-part piece of WELOS that felt like a problem (though never was in practice), and maybe added one at a lower level.

 

So, folks, there is no such thing as more fun bidding-wise than WELOS.

 

Come play with me!

 

"Friend" me a check out my Favorite Convention Card, which has had afore-mentioned changes in the last 24 hours.

 

Come play with me!

[pigpenz]

remember playing in a regional in Wichita back in 1981 We came in 5th in master pairs playing

10-12 NT

and 1-2-3 two suiters before acbl banned them

maybe we played against you :P

 

I can remember playing in SF and we opened light and got to minor suit slam and opps called the director on us( the late sid davidson) and he said we couldnt open that way anymore.

[Oren Goren]

remember playing in a regional in Wichita back in 1981 We came in 5th in master pairs playing

10-12 NT

and 1-2-3 two suiters before acbl banned them

maybe we played against you ;)

 

I can remember playing in SF and we opened light and got to minor suit slam and opps called the director on us( the late sid davidson) and he said we couldnt open that way anymore.

That was the right era for Wichita. Did you play against the young guys who'd fold their hand, put an elbow on the table, lean their head against the folded hand, and then turn the hand toward partner for a peep at the revealed card? Complex opening lead conventions but local director said no damage done.

 

Next thing ACBL is going to ban: minor suit contracts at 5-level, and only one minor suit slam per session.

[pigpenz]

remember playing in a regional in Wichita back in 1981 We came in 5th in master pairs playing

10-12 NT

and 1-2-3 two suiters before acbl banned them

maybe we played against you :)

 

I can remember playing in SF and we opened light and got to minor suit slam and opps called the director on us( the late sid davidson) and he said we couldnt open that way anymore.

That was the right era for Wichita. Did you play against the young guys who'd fold their hand, put an elbow on the table, lean their head against the folded hand, and then turn the hand toward partner for a peep at the revealed card? Complex opening lead conventions but local director said no damage done.

 

Next thing ACBL is going to ban: minor suit contracts at 5-level, and only one minor suit slam per session.

all i can remember is the next day in first session we had a 219 in first session and lost out on a free styrofoam cooler for beer to Dick Yarrington and his partner by 3 matchpoints....we needed that beer cooler that night

[Oren Goren]

Let's play the super aggressive WELOS.

 

A recent study of Ginsburg's file of 717,102 boards showed that partnerships with 11 HCP minimum openers in seat one/two allowed 107,724 15+ HCP hands to be opened by the opponents out of 1,434,204 "possible".

 

Diluted WELOS (per ACBL's 8+ HCP requirement) allowed 62,035.

 

Original WELOS allowed 26,441 minimum.

 

My Favorite Convention Card does not show original WELOS. The strange 1C would be just like other suit openers in the original, and 2-bids would all be 12-15 Total points.

 

Please peek and then email me, and discuss light openers, and opening 63% and more of the hands every session.

[Oren Goren]

If anyone did peek at my Favorite Convention Card, it probably showed the weird 1C I set for myself as a challenge to find a way to avoid the one opening call I disliked in WELOS: 2S.

 

Well, try as I might I could find no way to make it work, but that was the challenge I set for myself.

 

1C strange and artificial, begone!

 

Let's talk system, folks.

 

And play.