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Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 3, 2010
- Last Seen
- April 30
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
- I am a bridge geek, who once spent my week on the beach in Tahiti learning a strong pass relay system in order to fill in for someone for one session during my vacation in New Zealand.
- Country
- United States
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Making the Semi-finals of the US team trials the one time I played in them.
- Bridge Accomplishments
- I Won a Club Game Once.
- BBO Username
- joshs
- ACBL Ranking
- Gold Life Master
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- Designing a big club system: Some theory questions
- Hey Ron, I have played both 4 and 5 card majors in the context of a Strong Club. I have also played both weak and strong NTs. My comments: The best two auctions in Precision are: 1M-4M (wideranging, and 3+ trumps) 1D-1N (when 1D is weakish, say 11-13, this auction ...
- Better Notrump Leads Part 2
- Dear Gump: its no fair giving away my opening lead secrets :(
- After you've trashed the redouble
- Well the way I would have defined things: 1S-x-2H is 3spades, and about 8+ in value. Partner treats it as 8-10, but playing x-fers you can bid again.... 1S-X-2S is a worse raise, I think its about 5-7 in value, maybe 4-7 white 1S-x-xx is most balanced/semi balanced good ...
- Lots of options
- I think there are two reasonable answers here. You can make an immediate negative x (and risk catching partner with 3352 or similiar) or you can pass planning on passing the re-opening x. I do not understand passing and then guessing a suit at the 3 level, nor do I ...
- Gitelman Eyes Sabbatical in 2013
- Fred, Have a great rest! You deserve it. Go traveling! Maybe a trekking trip in New Zealand or in Nepal? And ski to your hearts content. Perhaps check out Leonard Susskind's physics lectures (available online from Stanford)?! They are very good. And after all that, I am sure your ...
- Discouraging Frivolous Appeals
- I would be strongly against getting rid of appeals committes. Even if directors were properly trained to make the correct rulings: a. Some rulings hinge on system details, and can't be sorted out without testemony and system notes (which means that there has to be a "hearing" although who ...
- Psyching a precision nebulous 1D opener
- Yeah John Diamond made the same psych on a very similiar hand against me in the semis in 2010. I didn't call the director at the time, but I publically raised the issue since I did not think it was kosher. More generally I think a. there are lots ...
- The Memphis Blues
- Jordan: I actually am not really sure if dummy actually had the spade 8 in the triple squeeze hand (which is needed if I unblock the SJ). I had to put 52 cards into the viewer, and the size of the spot cards did not effect the triple squeeze, so ...
- In the Well: Adam Kaplan
- What is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
- 1!H - 1!S Auctions
- To all those suggesting alternate treatments: These are articles for advancing players. What they need to do is first learn the correct way to bid in a standard natural structure. This way if they sit down with a partner, discuss methods for 15 minutes, they can actually communicate. If your ...
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