Bridge Winners Profile for Filippos Karamanlis
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Oct. 10, 2010
- Last Seen
- 4 hours 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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- Peg Kaplan's bidding problem: 963 K8762 Q7 J53
- Partner opened 3H with xx AJ109x J109xx x
- Another 2N-bid
- 2 places to play or weak in hearts
- Cuebid swap?
- http://www.militos.org/finesse/mobile/index.html#p=18 In Greece we just call it "duboin"
- Redouble Trouble: Current Standard Expert Practice?
- And how you double them when they get unlucky?
- Yet Another Look
- Thank you for your research and analysis!
- 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.
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