Bridge Winners Profile for Paul Holmes
Basic Information
- Member Since
- July 12, 2011
- Last Seen
- 17 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Akron OH area. 1 NABC win (Young LM pairs, 2018).
Bridge Information
- BBO Username
- palabreur
- ACBL Ranking
- Silver Life Master
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- Expanding Confined Space
- I thought this was going to be about how the long-legged among us can get more physical space at the table. Oh, how I love when I get N/S assignment up against a wall, with space to shove my chair back a foot or two...
- The Best Bridge Players On Wall Street (as of 2011)
- Probably refers to the ACBL "Player of the Decade" list generated in the year referenced. This is the current list: https://web3.acbl.org/mpraces/?year=2019&race=POD&showDeceased=Y
- Divertimento
- Not having an agreement about whether 13-15 was weak or strong? So South doubled intending your strong notrump defense (something including a long minor) and North thought it was penalties? After the diamond lead from South, I think -480 is just about given.
- 4th seat 4!h open
- ODR = Offense-defense ratio
- Is 4333 a semi-balanced distribution?
- I thought a Swan was (7411).
- Properly explaining a transfer accept
- My preference in situations like this, whether or not it's "legal", is to offer to explain what the bid shows, but to say "you should ask partner about <1NT here, whatever is relevant> first." They almost always do. If they don't, I'm happy that I've divested my responsibility for full disclosure.
- Should score be adjusted?
- Isn't the right question "If you had been told that North intended double as takeout, but that South forgot that was their agreement and believed double was penalty, what would you have done?" That gives both the authorized information from the table (what south said and did) and the ...
- Open Memphis Discussion Thread
- Thanks DB for the reference to Mott the Hoople's "All the Way from Memphis"; I'd only heard Brian May's cover.
- My 1NT engine
- "3♦ 5+/5+ minors at least invitational" but forcing? Seems strange.
- What is partner doing bidding 6!C?
- @DJ I made a poor choice of example hand... AQJxxx / A / x / AQJTx?
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