Likes: strong club systems, weak NT, canape. My favourite system is (therefore) Blue Club. Dislikes: 2/1 systems with their byzantine accretions of flying buttresses :)
\nCreated a Precision variant that I play with a few partners. Working out a system is always interesting.
\nPrefer count in almost all situations. As Guido sayeth, "we may not be good enough to know whether to encourage or not; but we can usually tell whether we have an odd or an even number of a suit". Amen.
\nIntolerant of rudeness and poor ethics. I tend to over-alert and over-explain, and bend over backwards to avoid using UI.
\nWish the ACBL would have simpler GCC rules. How can it be illegal to play Roman in 2013? Wish I could remember stuff well enough to play a relay system. Ambition: read and understand the rest of the chapters in Love :)
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This is a situation I have never come across before.
While preparing to defend, after LHO has opened an announced 15-17 1NT, we ask one of our routine questions: "can declarer have a 5-card major?".
"Yes", comes the reply, "but not in spades". And if I recall correctly, the CC was perused at this point to find a note to this effect.
Obviously, situations exist where we would be entitled to this information earlier than at opening lead time. But how/when should this information be made available?
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