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Many years ago at a Toronto NABC my partner and I played what we called Tri-Star, 3 different systems depending on vulnerability. In the final round of a large Swiss. Playing for the event, we came up against Mike Smolen and his partner. Smolen looked at our card and said “you can't play 3 different cards”. I asked for a Director who agreed with Smolen. Smolen arrogantly said “I give you 10 seconds to come up with a card”. I wanted to argue the matter some more but my partner said “let's just play two over one”. “okay”, I answered “but no Smolen”.
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It's not as much about 8 card fit vs 7 card fit as about giving partner another chance to bid if he's got extras. He had AKJxxx AKxxx xx – and would have bid on. The vulnerable opponents bid so much because they had a 12 card fit. I passed at the table and as a result we lost an important match by 1 IMP. I'm glad I have company with my bad decision.
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Several news organizations have in fact decided to do away with the customary April 1 fake stories, because fake news spreads so quickly these days and becomes indistinguishable from real news. Perhaps BW has to follow suit, as it were.
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The only makeable slams wete 6H or 6NT by South. West held xx xx Kx KJ10xxxx and South Qx KQxx Axxx Axx. 6D can be beaten with a club lead and a later ruff. Could 5NT over 3H be misinterpreted as GSF or is that convention totally obsolete?
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In the final round of a large Swiss. Playing for the event, we came up against Mike Smolen and his partner. Smolen looked at our card and said “you can't play 3 different cards”. I asked for a Director who agreed with Smolen. Smolen arrogantly said “I give you 10 seconds to come up with a card”. I wanted to argue the matter some more but my partner said “let's just play two over one”.
“okay”, I answered “but no Smolen”.
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Could 5NT over 3H be misinterpreted as GSF or is that convention totally obsolete?
Allan Simon
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Allan Simon