Bridge Winners Profile for David Jackson
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- Member Since
- Sept. 15, 2011
- Last Seen
- Dec. 1, 2018
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Senior Player from Ireland. NPC of Irish Open team 2005-2012. Author with Ron Klinger of 'Better Balanced Bidding: The Banzai Method' which advocates a 54321 point count for the honours when you hold a balanced hand.
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- BBO Username
- jacksond
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- #2 - Which Pair's Resume is This?
- Look at a pairs results in the year or years when they have been convicted of cheating - Butlers, tournament results whatever takes your fancy. Then when it turns out their results record is even better - Butlers, tournament results or whatever, in the previous years when there was no conviction for ...
- The Talk That Never Was: The Blue Team Rule
- Or as my chiropodist said. "There is profit in de feet"
- The Talk That Never Was: The Blue Team Rule
- Like numerous others I am looking forward to reading the book but I wouldn’t be using the 20/1 quote unless there was evidence that someone had actually bet money at those odds i.e. wager $1000 to win $50. If a bookmaker is dubious about the contest or ...
- The Talk That Never Was: The Blue Team Rule
- Hi David and Jeff. There was an earlier UK Betting Exchange before Betfair called Flutter.com which was eventually taken over by Betfair. Trying to make the case against the Exchanges that what defines and differentiates a punter from a bookmaker is that the former has a bet and the ...
- The Talk That Never Was: The Blue Team Rule
- Robert is an expert in both the Bridge world and the Gambling world, but even he is little confused re a ‘ Back bet’ and a ‘Lay bet’. Betting on something to occur such as horse to win a race is a ‘Back bet’. Betting on something not to occur is ...
- Shoot me for going down in 4 spades, not for plagiarism.
- Addendum: Myrtle Bennett continued to play Bridge in local clubs and, of course, the murder was never mentioned in her presence. Many years later a young partner of hers who was unaware of the history overbid the dummy and as he put down his hand he announced. ‘Partner, when you ...
- 95 Y.O. Bernard Teltscher Wins Four Stars Teams at EBU Summer Festival
- Bernard is an excellent 'after-dinner' speaker and a highlight of those Senior Camrose (Teltscher Trophys) that Bernard has played in or attended is his speech at the meal which concludes the 3-day event. He usually then introduced 'His Serene Highness' who himself was no slouch when he got the microphone ...
- Jan Kamras elected EBL President
- Its Jan KAMRAS
- Simulation: Richard Pavlicek
- For some examples, to say that the errors relative to reality from a DD analysis of thousands of hands either in favour of or against the declarer roughly cancel each other MAY be approximately true. So in those cases, fortuitously, the results may be similar to reality. For example, how ...
- Simulation: Richard Pavlicek
- Averages are tricky to work with. To say as others in this thread have said that a DD simulation sometimes favours declarer and sometimes favours the defenders BUT on average the errors balance each other out and the results reflect the reality is an untrue and childlike statement to make ...
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