nktub Posted November 30, 2014 Report Share Posted November 30, 2014 I am surprised the BBO allows players to sit at a table with no indication of what system they use. No bridge club would allow this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted November 30, 2014 Report Share Posted November 30, 2014 It is not BBO's place to allow or forbid such practice, but for the table host or tourney host. BTW I know of at least one bridge club that does allow this: Crockfords. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycroft Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 In clubs in the ACBL, it is *recommended but not required* for pairs to have a convention card at the table. In many clubs in the ACBL, whether or not they do in fact require it, many pairs that play 2/1, strong NT, 3 weak 2s and some sort of ace-asks don't have cards for weeks and weeks, and nobody calls them on it. When I ran a game, I would frequently not have a card - but that's because if I were playing, I was filling in with someone that arrived 7 minutes after game time (having been called to come in 2 minutes before game time), and our entire discussion was "what do we play over their NT? right-side-up or upside-down carding? No Gerber Ever, and what's 4NT?" I would state that if a pair was playing something nonstandard (what "nonstandard" means depends on the strength of the game) and wilfully didn't have a card. I would get on their case; if they were playing basically something expected, I would get them a card and lean on them to write it up (usually warning them that they'd be likely on the wrong side of any MI rulings until they did). Tournaments are, of course, something totally different; but "no bridge club" is hugely overbroad. Having said all of that, it's up to BBO, and BBO at least in the MBC has decided "if you don't like it, find another table". That's especially true as a much higher percentage of pickup pairs exist on BBO to "any bridge club". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 The profile is useless for system info unless the player is so rigid that he always insists on playing the same system/conventions/carding/leads regardless of whom he is partnering. Of course you can use the profile for telling prospective partner's what you can or can't play but that won't tell opps what you are playing with a particular partner. CCs are ok but given that you can always tell opps in private what your bids mean they are less essential online than in real life. At my club there are pairs who have played for decades without ever writing a CC. Would you really expect a pair who met online 30 seconds ago, and don't even speak the same language, to already have filled in a CC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 At my club there are pairs who have played for decades without ever writing a CC. Would you really expect a pair who met online 30 seconds ago, and don't even speak the same language, to already have filled in a CC? Doesn't BBO have CCs already loaded? That way pickup or casual partners could load one and agree to play it as written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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