Bridge
Does anyone else on this forum play bridge? I was told by a successful poker-playing buddy that it would make my NLHE game much better, so i started playing it.
Now, I think if I want pure entertainment, there might not be a better game. I love poker, but sometimes waiting for hours to pick up playable hands gets really boring, whereas even the worst of bridge deals require some greater sense of thinking and careful play.
So, if anyone wants to talk about bridge, I guess this is the thread to do it!
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IMPs daylong robot tournament, this one cost be a fair few, third seat r/w
AKQT8
AQJ
92
Q72
1c - 1s - 1n - 2d (nmf) - 2n - 3n - end (opps silent throughout)
Where exactly did I underbid my hand hugely given half the people playing got to a relatively simple 6NT making?
With that good spade suit I would treat the hand as a 19 HCP hand. Thus I think it is worth a 4NT bid over 2NT which would invite 6NT.
But then again IMPs daylong tournament...
If you want to score well on an 8 board IMPs tournament you can't afford to miss any slam. I might just bid 6NT over 2NT given format.
Qxx of clubs is pretty huge here -- doesn't opener basically have to be 2335?
This is a long shot, but would any 2+2 bridge-ers in the DC area be up for playing with me in the WBL sectional swiss teams this Sunday? My partner is sick and likely unavailable, so trying to find a fourth. You can email me at [email][email protected][/email].
Maybe the most egregious director call I have ever had
999er game
East and West have played a long time, but they are the bad intermediate ACBL older range who is never getting better
https://bridgewinners.com/article/view/c...
Auction goes
3S-X-4S-X-P
West "So you are going to make me bid"
East "No I'm not"
So I was also playing in the mentor/mentee game in the other room so I without looking at the hand said, "West pretend you didn't hear anything, and continue the auction like you didn't hear anything, N/S if you feel you were damaged call me back." But naturally west passes.
North/South doesn't call me back after the hand.
N/S and E/W were bottom two of the event so it didn't really matter...
So I look more closely at the hand after the game.
Man. If I had been called back...I think I give EW 5DX-3 and a procedural penalty. I almost wanted to give them one just for show.
West doubled 3S with his 11 red?
ROFL
Justin FMK Lall memorial bump
It's 4 years ago already
RIP
So PBAL in the World Bridge Games in Argentina
http://db.worldbridge.org/Repository/tou...
On team Canada
Can't seem to navigate their site to find a link but board 14 of Hungary/Italy had quite a few imps
I think it's on one of Pete's recap videos
I did VuGraph for the second set, USA vs Netherlands today. Great set of hands.
Anyone coming to Vegas? I’d like to meet some of the other poker/bridge players
Had an opponent get dealt the best hand I have seen in my life
AKQxxxxx/AKQ/A/A
Not every day you get above average because the opponents bid 7S instead of 7NT. Opponents had some meaningless 2C auction instead of just opening 7NT which I saw at a lot of tables.
christ how is that not the flattest board ever
as an aside i have been casting the bbo weekly free to twitch for a few months now, usually do it around 1pm est on a friday, but all the vods are on my channel (sixfour64), but i'll likely be moving them to rumble soon on account of changes to twitch's highlights retention policies
If you don't open 7NT with that hand, you are not a bridge player
You could try the ruse of opening 2c, showing a suit other than spadesā¦hope to get raised, bid Blackwood or cue bid or whatever on your way to 7NT. As long as you have a trustworthy partner who wonāt pass a forcing bid, you might catch a naive opponent who thinks than JT9x of a suit is worth doubling. Here, the best suit is hearts, since we have the AKQā¦
What's the percentage play to draw trumps with AKJTxx opposite xx for no losers, when we know we must ruff one loser in the short hand so, if wanting to take the finesse, we must do it immediately and can only do it once? Playing the weekly free earlier, sort of thing I should know but don't
Spoiler
played for a doubleton queen but Qxx was onside costing me a top and giving me a bottom
Actually probably pertinent to give more details as it might be useful given the auction, partner deals and opens 3C - 3H forcing, 4H, 4N keycard, 6H (one keycard and spade void), 7H
I have K - AKJTxx - AKJTx - x, lefty leads DQ (thanks), partner flips void - xx - xxxx - AQ9xxxx, I win, ruff the spade, now back to the question
