Bridge Winners Profile for Eric Dong
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- Member Since
- Sept. 28, 2016
- Last Seen
- 5 minutes ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- 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.
- BBO Username
- ericdong
- ACBL Ranking
- Non Life Master
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- Is this system bad or illegal? (EDIT)
- Definitely illegal in ACBL land with the 0-7HCP 2M preempts, other opening bids are legal imo. Not sure how effective the 1♣ or 1♦ opening will workout but as others have said, it could look bad as of now, but with some time and practice, you can definitely ...
- ATB
- Not sure how to bid without special agreements. Playing transfer lebensohl over 2♠ - X, W can bid 3♦ showing 5+♥ inv or better, E accepts invite and bids 4♥, W can consider moving further.
- Double shot ?
- I would really like to get some explanations and insights from the experts who think that a 4♠ bid was the obvious bid over 3♦ as long as that N knows 3♦ is probably not natural. With p's re-opening double you know that the HCP is ...
- ATB - missed slam
- Problem is that is there a method to allow N to know if S has ♦ shortness or xxx in ♦.
- ATB - missed slam
- We have agreement in this kind of forcing situations but this specific situation we did not discuss. In general, Direct bid = this bid is clear (5♣ shows I want to play in 5♣) Pass = force XX, and then bid = this bid is not clear (P - XX - 5♣ ...
- Does lead directing (at low/partial level) X promise a real suit?
- Not when you are vul
- That 4D-5C hand again
- Not standard but a great alternative is to play transfer over 1♣ when partner responses 1♦ (shows 4+♥), you simply bid 1♥ to show exactly 3-card ♥ and less than reverse strength When partner responses 1♥ (shows 4+♠, deny 4♥ unless ♠ is ...
- Should South find a bid with this hand?
- Most players I know play 2♠ over 1♦ - 1♠ as natural.
- Kyle Rockoff's bidding problem: --- AKJ93 KQ93 KQJ3
- It really depends on your agreed 3♥ response range
- Thibault Wolf's bidding problem: 7654 T9 QJ K9753
- X is a matchpoint bid
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