Bridge Winners Profile for Marc Bonnet
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Sept. 30, 2013
- Last Seen
- 20 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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- Directing to what lead?
- The doubler passed over 3♦ not yet knowing that opener would bid 3NT, so cannot have concealed a long and strong major suit. Doubling with very good ♣s is more conceivable since bidding 4♣ over 3♦ would often still be unappealing (say 5332 with ♣KQJxx and out ...
- Same doubled contract by same team in both rooms
- Hemant
- ATB- missing spade contract
- South could have bid more strongly, but I understand reluctance on their part (soft balanced hand, honors of unclear values in suits bid by opponents, desire to avoid an iffy game at matchpoints). North's 1♠ bid can be based on either a 4-card suit and some values, or ...
- ATB
- I do not see any problem with West's 3rd seat opener; this by the way makes East's double of 1NT a very borderline action (would be more normal facing a 1st or 2nd seat opener). The unilateral 2♠ bid was really begging for trouble; 2♥ would ...
- 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 ♠ ...
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