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BPO 9 The next series of hands

#1 User is offline   mr1303 

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Posted 2007-June-03, 04:55

1. IMPs, Love all

♠ K53
♥ --
♦ Q9875
♣ K10643

Partner deals and opens 1♣, RHO passes. Your call?

2. IMPs, Unfavourable

♠ A1032
♥ AQ3
♦ --
♣ J106432

RHO you LHO pard
1♠ pass 1NT 2♠
3♠ 4♥ 4♠ pass
pass ?

3. IMPs, love all

♠ K107
♥ K953
♦ Q42
♣ 873

1♦-(P)-1♥-(1♠)
X*-(2♠)-P-(P)
3♣-(P)-?

Partner opened 1♦, and X was a support double, showing 3 card support.

4. Pairs, love all.

♠ KQJ9
♥ AKQ32
♦ J7
♣ AJ

RHO deals and passes. What do you open?

5. IMPs, Game all

♠ AJ107543
♥ KQ
♦ K
♣ KQ9

Opponents silent, you deal and open 1♠. Partner responds 2♣. Your go

6. Pairs, Unfavourable. Opponents again silent, you deal and open 1♦ holding:

♠ J3
♥ AKQ
♦ KJ7543
♣ Q9

Partner responds 1♥. What do you try now?

7. Pairs, game all. Partner deals and opens 1♦, and RHO overalls 3♣. You hold:

♠ A6
♥ J10965
♦ K52
♣ Q32

What do you try here?

8. IMPs, love all. As South, West deals and opens 3♣, partner overcalls 3♥ and East passes. You hold:

♠ AJ97
♥ 53
♦ A862
♣ Q104

Your call?

I'd be grateful if someone could pin this thread, and let the panel (if it still exists) know about the hands. Please either private message me your answers, or better still send them by email to Mark.Reeve@blueyonder.co.uk
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Posted 2007-June-03, 05:18

There's no problem this far, unless I disagree to the 1♦ opening on board 6. There's no auction after my opening.
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Posted 2007-June-03, 08:13

Oops. Duly edited
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Posted 2007-June-03, 08:31

Do you mean matchpoints if you say "pairs"? :angry:
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Posted 2007-June-03, 12:22

Yeah, never really got my head round IMP-pairs.
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Posted 2007-June-13, 09:47

Not many answers so far. Does that mean it's a difficult set of problems, or are people just on holiday
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Posted 2007-June-13, 09:59

mr1303, on Jun 13 2007, 10:47 AM, said:

Not many answers so far. Does that mean it's a difficult set of problems, or are people just on holiday

Generally, the problem set is emailed to the panel of experts. And then each problem is opened one at a time for discussion, followed by the panels views and the host scoring the problems. How much of this are you planning on doing?
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Posted 2007-June-13, 11:04

mr1303, on Jun 13 2007, 10:47 AM, said:

Not many answers so far. Does that mean it's a difficult set of problems, or are people just on holiday

Maybe a deadline is missing as well.

With kind regards
Marlowe

PS: You should have received my guesses ...
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Posted 2007-June-13, 13:02

Open a post on general bridge discussion, this forum has been closed for so long that I missed it after now. You'll see my answers as well. Thanks for the effort.
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Posted 2007-June-13, 13:20

I'll send you my answers tomorrow.
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Posted 2007-June-15, 17:59

Interesting hands though I guess I got to abstain on one and two so far. :o
Thanks for your efforts.
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Posted 2007-June-15, 18:09

mr1303, on Jun 13 2007, 09:47 AM, said:

Not many answers so far. Does that mean it's a difficult set of problems, or are people just on holiday

I have to admit that I am a little irritated that you apparently posted this without first coordinating with Ben etc. about contacting a possible panel. What's going to happen?
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Posted 2007-June-16, 12:51

Just read this post now.

Anyway, my initial posting stated the following:

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I'd be grateful if someone could pin this thread, and let the panel (if it still exists) know about the hands.



So unfortunately I don't know who is on the panel. I'll reiterate my previous statement that if someone wishes to either a) give me a list of e-mail addresses etc of the panel or :D is willing to send an e-mail to everyone who is on it informing them of the thread, and requesting their analysis, I'll quite happily write up the comments etc on the forums.

I have also put the answers from those who have replied into a spreadsheet ready for analysis.
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Posted 2007-June-19, 04:58

I can't help you much on that, I think only Ben can pin the post.

bout the panel, if you select to read post older than 30 days you could read past polls, there you will see a list of the experts, but not their mails.
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Posted 2007-July-04, 18:13

Thank you for the problems, mr1303. I've emailed my guesses to you. I wouldn't expect too much in the way of replies from BBO "experts". They are liable to make an early horrendous mistake then leave the quiz half-way, cursing you for their error :P
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Posted 2007-July-05, 05:38

So, when do we get the "solutions?" :)
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Posted 2007-July-09, 10:33

Markings etc will be out by Friday this week. I've marked them all now and assigned marks to each call. I'm opening hands 2 at a time for discussion at the moment.
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Posted 2007-July-15, 18:50

Did you solicit expert opinion, or are the scores just subjective based on the responses?
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