Charlotte Regional
#1
Posted 2007-October-19, 17:42
#2
Posted 2007-October-19, 17:45
(still learning)
#3
Posted 2007-October-19, 17:49
TylerE, on Oct 19 2007, 06:42 PM, said:
I have not played f2f bridge in years and years. To be fair many online forum posters might say I still do not know how to play bridge but..........
I was thinking of maybe going to this tourney and giving it a whirl since I live just down the road.
PM me if you or anyone else here may have any interest in playing or need more information.
I keep hearing alot about these KO or swiss teams thingies....that sounds like fun.
http://www.mabcbridge.org/RegionalTourname...2/InfoIndex.htm
Mike
#4
Posted 2007-October-19, 18:05
- hrothgar
#6
Posted 2007-October-23, 15:40
Played KO with 3 other pickups...We were in bracket 3....3000-5000 team points.
Just a few comments...everyone was very nice and made the game enjoyable.
Lot of stars there, meckwell, cohen, berk, grue, lynch team, sontag and on and on...
KO is a huge event......7 brackets something around 120 or more teams I think...
New version of KO starting every 3 hours it seemed...
The hestitation and gestures and sighs were constant. In one slam auction that was taking forever to bid one opp simple said...I am confused...in the middle of their auction. The play at the other table was constantly slow....30 minutes to an hour behind us...In fact in the last match....they cancelled the last bd...
Every one was very nice..and I really enjoyed myself..I may go back for another pick up event.
Some random comments I heard that stuck with me:
1) I am still confused between takeout and negative doubles.
2) I needed 7.92 gold pts and I just got 3.7 gold pts.
3) Meckstroth " I played the Queen and LHO played......."
4) I only had 5 hcp so how could I force to game let alone bid slam in 2 suits when you showed 18-19 bal.? (6=1=6=0). His partner raised the nonforcing bid to game anyway.
I told everyone to come play online with BBO. The most frequent comment I heard was, it sounds complicated and are the people nice?
If the 3 nice ladies I played with happen to read this ty ladies..btw one had 100 pts and the other 400 pts. good run....
Ok will close with my one and only director call I made
(2d)=2h=(x)=p
((3d)=?
I now ask what x was and am told negative....
I call director and am told
1) x if penalty not an alert
2) x if negative not an alert
3) your partner needs to ask and protect herself.
Ciao
#7
Posted 2007-October-23, 17:27
Glad you enjoyed your "excursion" into f2f bridge.
#8
Posted 2007-October-26, 16:45
No luck in getting partners at the partnership desk wednesday and thursday mornings so no bridge.
Today Friday, got a pick up partner and played with a pair who were a partnership. Did not know them but I know they had a ton of points. We were in bracket one morning ko.
We lost. Our opp made enough errors for us to win and played solid bridge but nothing that seemed tough.
Our team simply lost because of poor opening leads, not bidding our games, one bidding misunderstanding and uninspired declarer play. My point being we lost simply from poor basic play that I would expect most posters in the beg/int forum to do better on. Be not afraid BBO's int players I see no reason why you cannot do very well even in some bracket one KO's
#9
Posted 2007-October-26, 19:35
Sorry you had a bad bridge event. I hope the rest of your trip went well. I am not familiar with the area too much but perhaps it had some good restaurants.
Thanks,
Dan
#10
Posted 2007-October-27, 20:56
Sean
#11
Posted 2007-October-28, 16:31
The people were very nice and polite. I enjoyed the table chatter. Our team did nothing great and missed some games, one slam, and some poorish defense on a few hands and silly play on a few others. My partner and I had two smallish bidding misunderstandings, one cost 2 imps the other 6 imps. Despite that we won somehow.
Talk about MP inflation I played in 3 events and in one event won zero pts and won 22+ in the other two. I have no hands or problems to post since my biggest surprise was that the bidding, play and defensive problems we try and solve in these forums, any of the forums are tougher than the problems I noticed at the table. Trying to solve these forum problems really has helped me, a ton!
At the end I got to chat a little with Larry Cohen in the lobby. Jeff and Eric(meckwell) were there also, just standing around and I had a million questions to ask them but I did not want to pester them.
Again I told everyone to come and play on BBO!
#12 Guest_Jlall_*
Posted 2007-October-28, 21:30
mike777, on Oct 28 2007, 05:31 PM, said:
This is refreshing (and I'm not being sarcastic).
Congrats on a good tourney.