Bridge Winners comments by Sven Pride

Oren Kriegel's bidding problem: KQ7542 J42 QT Q4

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And over 4♥, is 4♠ keycard for hearts?

Dec. 5

Prahalad Rajkumar's bidding problem: KT JT72 AJ9652 6

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Best not to put all of your eggs in one basket

Dec. 4

Good judgment all round

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I'm not sure that bidding a slam that requires an 8-0 break qualifies as good judgement.

Dec. 4

Declare this 6D, please

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Without having seen Michael’s infinitely more fun line, I will be taking the spade hook to pitch a heart and ruffing one club in dummy - hoping for either a 3-2 D break or Qxx of clubs (or both :)

Nov. 11

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Sven Pride's bidding problem: J96 A642 T82 QT7

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South is a very good player, but is pretty straightlaced. Of the two, north is more likely to psych. But you can trust your pd’s takeout double. With a balance 17-19 he will pass.

Nov. 9

We blocked them at MPs

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South has 4 spades and 5 good hearts and passed 1D?

Nov. 6

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Who's to blame?E

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Pd has invited to double for penalty.
If you're looking for better than a KJT8x stack, you may be waiting for a long time.

That said - I'm not sure West has the double of 2N so…

Nov. 6

How many times would you pass?

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Either you open 3C or you pass throughout. Bidding on this when the opps haven't found a fit is… anti-percentage

Nov. 3

ATB Matchpoint disaster

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Yes, I was thinking that the spade and diamond lengths might be reversed.

Oct. 11

OK?

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By open - I assume you mean a one-level bid (which to me this doesn't qualify - even if it's a six-loser hand)
But pass also didn't really occur to me - the only question was how many diamonds

Oct. 9

Too weak to reverse but holding 6m-5M, which suit do you open with?

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Well, yes - that's a 4-loser hand - easily within reverse strength

Sept. 27

Other as a logical alternative

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I disagree with John Adams 100% politically, and I, too, could not resist voting for other in this poll.

Sept. 25

Precision sequence 1D - P - 2C

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That's completely a question of agreement. We've decided our auctions are easier if we bid our 4-cd majors right away. 2♣ is a minor suit oriented invitational hand while 2♦ is minor suit oriented game force

Sept. 25

Wuhan Restaurants

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My understanding is that the scorpion dish is strictly for the tourists.

Sept. 16

Ethical, questionable or cheating?

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That's literally what she said.

Sept. 16

ATB: Did anyone actually do anything wrong?

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I know someone who did something wrong on this hand - but it wasn't at your table :)

Sept. 16

ATB - Goulash hand went wrong

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Where is “The bidding looks horrible, both players are to blame”

Sept. 6

Extras or Not?

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Any bid over 2H would show extras

Aug. 30

Robots did me dirty

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You can click next to find out.
JS got covered. Michael won and crossed to the AH to take the finesse again
Losing both a diamond and a trump was suboptimal in 6S

Aug. 30

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Poll on 4-way transfers

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As others have said, using 2S as size ask or clubs and 2N as diamonds or weak mm is relatively common here

Aug. 26

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