Bridge Winners Profile for Marc Bonnet
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Sept. 30, 2013
- Last Seen
- 12 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Scientist (in the applied math department of a Paris area university), married and father of 3.
Experienced France-based player.
System: French standard (5-card majors, strong NT, multi 2!D, 2M weak 2-suiters) with US twists (forcing 1NT replies over 1M openings, Jacoby 2NT, 2/1 almost GF) and many specialized treatments.
- Country
- France
Bridge Information
- Bridge Accomplishments
- One national teams title (Division Nationale 4 open teams, 2016); one third placing in national pairs championship (Division Nationale 3 open pairs, 2016) ; several regional wins.
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Antony, France
- Favorite Tournaments
- I only play in FFB-organized competition (except for BBO practice sessions)
- BBO Username
- m_bo
- ACBL Ranking
- None
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- My thoughts, my heart, and my tears are with our French brothers and sisters.
- Thanks all for much-appreciated sympathy. This is indeed a traumatic event for the city. Perhaps the positive energy generated by a shared will to rebuild and overcome this accident will somehow benefit the common good.
- ACBL Bulletin Review of When to Bid Notrump
- In a French expert-level (Division nationale 4) teams match last fall, we saw a scary push at +720. Opener had 15HCP 6322 with ♣AQxxxx (opened 1NT 15-17 at both tables). Responder had 15HCP 4333 and did not bid beyond 3NT. There were 13 top tricks (thanks to a perfect honor ...
- Forcing Jump?
- I expect very strong (in fact unanimous) expert consensus on non-forcing. Here I would play 4♣ as "preemptive-constructive", i.e. showing useful distributional values and genuine willingness to play 5♣ (either to make or as a sacrifice) if partner's hand warrants competing further. A typical hand for ...
- How do you play this 3!s bid?
- I never thought about this situation before. I think it is better to play X as basically some game hand. Cramming that bid with competitive cases, such as a delayed competitive 3♠, seems unplayable (for one thing, opener is probably allowed to respond 3NT to the double if that ...
- Anders Wirgren has passed away
- Very sad news! My heartfelt condolences to his family and relatives. I knew him only from his writing, being an avid reader of bridge literature to which he made very worthy contributions. He wrote over the last years a string of articles on advanced card play topics in TBW, such ...
- Your turn.
- We know partner cannot possibly have a hand warranting a penalty double. Overtaking and returning ♥J plays partner for AJ/AQ10xx or AJ/AK10xx (with maybe longer ♥s) and out. No way either is a business X of 3NT. Therefore that X was something else. Maybe showing a 4-card ♠ ...
- ATB: Missed game
- Main culprit in my view is East's X; 3♥ seems much closer to the actual hand. X normally suggests 3♥s, but not 4, precisely because a 3♥ bid is available if need be. I would have found it natural to include that possibility (a standout IMO ...
- Meaning of this 3!S bid
- Game invite with 5-card ♠ suit. Examples given in both the 2nd and 3rd offered choices call for a direct 4♠ bid I think.
- Do these auctions show support/preference for first suit?
- First auction must imply some safety in 3♣, probably with 5 weak ♠s (say at best Qxxxx). No way North previously passed (twice!) with 5+ decent spades, to say nothing about above-suggested QJxxxxx which is in my view an absolute impossibility. With e.g. ♠QJ10xx and out I would ...
- YBTJ
- I much dislike the 3♠ bid. The West hand should be downgraded (minimal HCP count for a putative 3♠ bid, HCP wastage in trumps, opening suit lacking both strength and the 5th card East will expect most of the time). In particular, West's hand is especially bad ...
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