Bridge Winners Profile for Filippos Karamanlis
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Oct. 10, 2010
- Last Seen
- an hour ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
I love natural bidding and penalty doubles :).
I have run the "Greek Islands" Bridge Festival for the last 5 years and recently published the exclusive bridge magazine "Finesse".
- Country
- Greece
Bridge Information
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Manolis Protonotarios
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- OPAF
- Favorite Tournaments
- European Championship
- BBO Username
- Firfos7
- ACBL Ranking
- None
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- Do you consider this pass forcing?
- yes unless white vs red
- What do you return?
- I like Patrick Laborde's response. As the count of the suit is evident from the bidding, coming back the 5 of spades, in general principles will help partner to find the correct switch (in our case club from Qxx)
- ACBL Attendance Dropoff - 2016-2018
- I don't know about regionals and sectionals but I can tell you the feedback I receive for the nationals: People from Europe and Middle-East are less inclined to play in a national because they find the atmosphere more hostile(opponent's behavior, director calls and rulings etc) than the ...
- How do you play the second double?
- Ax Kx KJ10x AQJxx Axx Kx KJx AKTxx
- Extra Values but no Stopper
- rdbl to show strength, then pass maybe partner can penalise and anyway it is forcing. if partner does not double bidding continues in natural terms.
- Konstantinos Doxiadis's lead problem: 63 9842 JT9876 5
- double of 2 spades just shows the entry for the next ruff...
- Konstantinos Doxiadis's lead problem: 63 9842 JT9876 5
- I don't understand how you cannot lead your singleton with so few values!
- Takeout or Penalty
- AKx AQ K10xx 109xx
- Hitchhiker revisited
- Makes life very easy for the defenders..
- Filippos Karamanlis's bidding problem: Q3 T T6543 AQ862
- North had AKQxx of diamonds (updated)
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