Bridge Winners Profile for Eric Dong
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Sept. 28, 2016
- Last Seen
- July 16
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Grew up and learned bridge in Hong Kong during 12th grade (2008) because only school bridge club members are allowed to bring playing cards to school. Brieftly after that I'm off from bridge for 5 years and on for bridge for another 5 years.
Love bidding theories, strategies and systems. However, I was convinced that I should gitgud in bridge before thinking about creating a system/convention. So currently I am still trying to gitgud.
- Country
- Canada
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- When I first learned bridge when I was in high school, me and 3 other newbies joined the interschool bridge tournament, along with another team from our school which was much more experienced. The tournament consisted of a swiss round, then the top teams from swiss round go into double elimination. During the swiss round my partner bid 4S instead of 4D because somehow he thinks his diamonds are spades. We did not get doubled, contract goes down 3, we got a positive IMP. And at the end we barely get through the swiss round because of that game. Somehow the experienced team did not even get through, this gave me great confidence. "Maybe I am talented in this game." I thought. Then we proceeded to lose 2 games in a row in the double elimination round. Game Over.
- Bridge Accomplishments
- 2018 CNTC-C Winner
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Johnson Zhu
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- McGill Bridge Club, Le Mirage Club de Bridge
- Favorite Tournaments
- 2018 CNTC
- Favorite Conventions
- Transfer, Inversions, Void splinter
- BBO Username
- ericdong
- ACBL Ranking
- Non Life Master
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- Lame Claims
- #1 Very reasonable for declarer to get the rest. #2, S have perfect information that s/he can claim the rest. Claiming finesse like that deserves to get 1 less trick.
- Delayed action after the opponent's preempt
- yes something like AKQxxx♠ with any shape I would bid 4♠ over 3♥
- Delayed action after the opponent's preempt
- One note for 1. is that N is likely to be not very long in ♠, usually 5-bad6(4 if feeling lucky) because with good 6+♠ it is probably automatic 4♠ over 3♥. So with a 5-5 hand, if my hand was not good to bid 4 ...
- Delayed action after the opponent's preempt
- probably 4♥ over 3♥ to show 5-5? If hand is too weak I guess your options are limited.
- Delayed action after the opponent's preempt
- 1. Sacrifice 2. Penalty
- Jacob Freeman's bidding problem: xxxx x J9xxx Txx
- Solely based on partnership agreement on this particular set of vulnerability. I assume most people don't like the idea of jumping 3♦ with super weak hands at vulnerable, hence the poll result. But I don't think agreeing on jumping 3♦ with this hand is insane.
- Difference of Opinion
- I know. My point is that the current law is not optimal. Also, a record like what I mentioned is not necessarily a punishment. Under current laws I fully agree with the ruling. I just don’t like the implication of this case. Think the analogy as, Running red light ...
- Difference of Opinion
- Perfect ruling... In the world of bridge. It's fascinating how S gets no consequence when it is clearly (or 99% likely) that s/he forgot s/he's playing 5-card stayman, all because that EW are deemed not damaged because a ♠ lead is almost impossible. Well, a ♠ ...
- Fixing the Forcing Notrump (Examples included)
- deleted
- Penalty or responsive?
- Would love to play this as takeout but without prior discussion this has to be penalty.
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