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Basic Information
- Member Since
- Nov. 24, 2011
- Last Seen
- 20 seconds ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- Country
- Canada
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Making the knockout stage in the 2012 World Championships in France, leading going into final segment vs Monaco
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Canadian National Team Champion 2012
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Daniel Korbel
- BBO Username
- dannymiles
- ACBL Ranking
- Gold Life Master
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- Forcing?
- I learned the hard way last month - one round force. I had a forcing hand 5-4-2-2 and was too chicken to bid 2H, so invented a 3C bid. We got to the wrong contract. 1C-1S 2C- is a different animal. Here you should use 2D as an artificial game force ...
- Bridge Documentary: In The Cards
- I remember the camera crew following you around seemingly for ages; at tournaments, at your parents' house in Thornill, at the bridge club, everywhere. It made me appreciate the time and effort filmmakers put in to make a 45 minute program. And how well you, family and friends handled having ...
- GNT Flight B
- I agree with the previous commenters. 3♦ over 2NT seems like the proper call on hand 1. I have an agreement with some partners that in game forcing auctions, a *jump* to 3NT by either partner shows about 15-17. Too many slams 16 opposite 17 are missed by 2-over-1 ...
- Monaco out of the Vanderbilt
- No hit to my bracket. It combusted long ago.
- Monaco out of the Vanderbilt
- And too bad, I'm sure Amoils wanted another shot at Multon stemming from last summer's worlds :)
- Monaco out of the Vanderbilt
- Have you seen how long high level players take to play 32 boards behind screens, take breaks, compare scores, etc? There's probably barely enough time for a quick bite before the marathon evening session commences! (btw, I hope for everyone's sake I'm wrong!)
- There has to be a better way
- I find this topic fascinating from a math point of view. However, qualitatively: One recent phenomenon that supports a round-robin qualifier (edit: deleted "swiss") in multiple pools, is the seeding of teams in the knockout. With the proliferation of international and younger players, seeding points for teams between say, #20 ...
- There has to be a better way
- Sorry - I'm sure the numbers can be manageable for say, 8 pools of 7-8-9 teams (whatever number needed fit the N teams into 8 pools to qualify 4 from each pool) and then to have a round robin among the 7/8/9 teams. So not a swiss. The ...
- Attention Bay Area - Introduction to Bridge for 7th-12th graders, at Stanford
- Most definitely play before bidding - starting with dealing out one suit and playing out that suit. Expanding from there. Mini-bridge would be great. 3 hours is going to be tight to have them being able to actually play by themselves but you never know. Info overload starts to kick in ...
- Gambling at Bridge
- To add confusion for newer and intermediate players, the length of a match matters as well; shorter matches (and the Swiss 30-pt VP scale that gives the first IMP of a win more weight than the 5th, 10th, etc IMP) temper some of the advantages of bidding gambling games. At ...
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