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- Member Since
- June 24, 2011
- Last Seen
- 17 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- Country
- United States
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- BBO Username
- sylviash
- ACBL Ranking
- Silver Life Master
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- Bidding Practice vs Playing Practice
- I think the point is that play errors are usually just related to your bridge skill, which improves more gradually, so you dont really need to specifically practice this right before a big event. System errors should theoretically be completely avoidable as long as you have enough agreements and everyone ...
- The beer card game
- I don't think beer card is going to interfere with your ability to make contracts or take overtricks in a serious event. Of course, I don't drink so I'm one of those not fun ones who just ignores the beer card. Sometimes my partners try to protect ...
- Irregular 1!c?
- I don't think I would ever open this 1c. Can't really see any benefit to doing so. It's not even a good lead director since a club bid is not a real suit anyway. If I were forced to open 1c, and my partner bid 1S, or ...
- Help with defense signalling
- I play upside down attitude and standard count with one of my partners and it works just fine. There's a technical reason to playing upside down attitude that everyone knows, which is that you don't want to pitch high cards which may be tricks in suits that you ...
- Sylvia Shi's bidding problem: KQT73 AJ872 AJ 6
- It seems to me that there is certainly some argument for bidding. You are looking at close to all the defensive hcp in your hand. Therefore you can reasonably only expect to set 2n one for 50, and this is only if your partner turns up with the jack of ...
- Bridge Odds vs Psychology suit combinations
- Lol, I just played to the jack because I thought hx was mildly more likely to be on my right on this hand with the trump suit splitting 32 the other way. I also have the 8 of hearts on this hand, could have tried running the jack instead, which ...
- dbl or 1nt?
- 1N seems to be the best description of the hand, plus I'd like to rightside our contract. I think I would plan to reopen with a double after the anticipated 2S response on my left. If they don't bid 2S, then my partner probably has 4 spades so ...
- ACBL Restricting Junior Coupons
- While I think that the ACBL is doing a nice thing by offering this junior discount, I really don't see what the big deal is about the changed regulations. I've always had some sort of a vague understanding about the junior discount, but even though I'm under ...
