Grew up in Kansas, and left as soon as was polite for schooling in LA. Thought I wanted to be a scientist. Huh.
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Learned K-S in college and played a bit at the old Wild Whist in Westwood. Then I moved to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in 1978 and took the next 30 years off (with only sporadic club experience in the Denver area). Started playing regularly again in Boulder, Colorado, and played my first sectional and regional tournaments. Learned to love Bracket 2/3 KOs. Favorite tournament: Palm Springs. Much prefer 10 & 3 schedules. Worst bridge characteristic: Black Hole Moments when I leave the planet and do really stupid stuff, usually when declaring.
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Former scuba diver, beach bum, general laborer, rocknroll bum/writer, ski bum, carpenter, bartender and tax lien investment fund manager. Currently, reformed (retired) lawyer, orphan, very happy husband, parental unit and grandfather.
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More personal disclosure than I have ever done. Weird.
Read more »I had a fairly spirited (for us) disagreement with a partner over the (unopposed) sequence 1♦-1♥//1♠-2♣//3♣. We play SNT 2/1, and in this sequence 1♠ is forcing. What is/should be the meaning of 3♣?
My position is that 2♣ asks the questions ♥ support? else ♣ stopper? so that 3♣ should show 4+ ♣; partner's position is that it should show uncertainty about playing NT, either a true partial stopper or something positional like Ax. I think my view is "standard" and superior theoretically, but he has seen a lot more hands than I, so he gets the benefit of a scintilla of doubt....
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