Bridge Winners Profile for Filippos Karamanlis
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Oct. 10, 2010
- Last Seen
- May 28
- 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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- Competitive Decision
- When I play rubber bridge or competition I expect that the situation mentioned above happens, even without opponents alerting that this might be the case. And it is very often the case!
- Competitive Decision
- (and opponents likely having 7 spades): It is standard practice I think to bid 1NT with 3 or even 4 spades with a weak hand. Moreover, at these colours, opener has often 10 points and responder 3-5..
- Raphael Hallerman's bidding problem: T3 KT87654 4 AT4
- Pass with this hand? What about Kxx AKxxx Qxx QJ ?
- Delayed Double Ambiguity
- No ambiguity here, penalty double in H with a hand that wants to penalise 1NT as well. Let the party begin!
- Bad slam
- 2D & 4C are not obligatory but acceptable. 4D is automatic (it doesn't even promise a D control normally just some slam interest opposite the short club). 4H is correct. 4SP is fine and 5C now gives the void with the minimum (otherwise S would bid directly 5C). So only ...
- bridge experts with gambling addiction?
- I was always under the impression that most bridge players are addicted to gambling(at least old-schoolers). Moreover, they use bridge as their "methadone" as it helps them get similar feelings with gambling without the negative economic impact.
- Debbie Rosenberg's bidding problem: QT8764 3 T85 732
- What is 1NT for them after 1D-1H. It seems they don't play it as natural hence the balanced strong hand without 4 spades is much more probable now. Anyway 3 little diamonds is very bad for offence so I don't think we can make 4SP. PS: I agree ...
- Whats the best way to play this 3NT hand?
- K of H probably with the overcall.
- Standard Turkish?
- I recognise karapet the unlucky and he is one of my all time favourite characters. However, saying that Armenia is a suburb of Turkey is something that if you knew about the genocide you would never have mentioned. That is why i urge you to read about it.
- Standard Turkish?
- "That's a suburb of Turkey" You might want to google Armenian Genocide then edit your comment.
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