[W Kovacs]

billw55, on Sep 30 2010, 07:30 AM, said:

Kovacs which hour each day do you play?

12pm-1pm CST. CST is GMT-6, if I'm not mistaken. It's my lunch hour at work.

I only play pickup when my partner doesn't show. He's been a little iffy the past few days. But he did show up yesterday, albeit a little late.

To add to my rant, I despise the undo button. I'm OK with it if the person claims a misclick. That happens.

But a few days ago an opponent bid and raised clubs while his partner bid and raised spades. 3C got passed out. Just before my partner led, the opponent asked for an undo. We granted it, thinking it was a misclick. He changed his bid to 5C, and it made.

That rankled a little bit, so I looked at the hands post mortem. Opener had a flat 13 hcp, and the person that asked for the undo had 10 hcp, and a sort of ratty 6 card club suit. They had no business even sniffing at game, and got lucky that the cards fell just right.

[billw55]

W Kovacs, on Sep 30 2010, 08:30 AM, said:

billw55, on Sep 30 2010, 07:30 AM, said:

Kovacs which hour each day do you play?

12pm-1pm CST. CST is GMT-6, if I'm not mistaken. It's my lunch hour at work.

I only play pickup when my partner doesn't show. He's been a little iffy the past few days. But he did show up yesterday, albeit a little late.

By happenstance, that is also my lunch hour, when I often play. I will look for you there, if you don't mind. Is your username the same?

[W Kovacs]

billw55, on Sep 30 2010, 10:06 AM, said:

W Kovacs, on Sep 30 2010, 08:30 AM, said:

billw55, on Sep 30 2010, 07:30 AM, said:

Kovacs which hour each day do you play?

12pm-1pm CST. CST is GMT-6, if I'm not mistaken. It's my lunch hour at work.

I only play pickup when my partner doesn't show. He's been a little iffy the past few days. But he did show up yesterday, albeit a little late.

By happenstance, that is also my lunch hour, when I often play. I will look for you there, if you don't mind. Is your username the same?

Yep. Like I said, I do have a regular partner, so when he shows up, I will play with him. But It'd be nice to have a backup partner, or maybe a change of pace.

What systems do you prefer?

[Bbradley62]

W Kovacs, on Sep 29 2010, 03:42 PM, said:

But there were oddballs that opened 1NT with the south hand.

In my experience in the MBC, there are many players whose profiles say they open 1NT=15-17 and 2NT=20-21, but they really open 1NT=15-18 and 2NT=19-21. I don't know whether this is because they don't want to get passed in 1m or because they want to play the hand.

[bucky]

Bbradley62, on Sep 30 2010, 12:25 PM, said:

In my experience in the MBC, there are many players whose profiles say they open 1NT=15-17 and 2NT=20-21, but they really open 1NT=15-18 and 2NT=19-21. I don't know whether this is because they don't want to get passed in 1m or because they want to play the hand.

They want to play the hand. 95% of bridge players think they are better than their partners.

[manudude03]

I had this hand earlier today that was a bit of a laugh. I was west, north and east were randoms.

Scoring: IMP

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P-1C-4S-X
P-5S-P-6D
P-7D-X-P
P-XX-AP

Partner decided to lead a spade Then rather than drawing trumps and relying on the club finesse which most be onside to have any hope, ruffs the lead, plays a heart back to hand and ruffs a spade high (though low wouldn't have been any better with the 3-1 trump break). Later on, north chucked his good heart on the losing ♣J, so the contract ended up being -2.

[billw55]

W Kovacs, on Sep 30 2010, 11:38 AM, said:

Yep.  Like I said, I do have a regular partner, so when he shows up, I will play with him.  But It'd be nice to have a backup partner, or maybe a change of pace.

What systems do you prefer?

2/1 or SAYC. My bidding isn't super advanced; I use several common gadgets (U2NT, splinters, 1430, etc) but not others (bergen, drury, etc). I try to focus on avoiding stupidities rather than fine tuned science. If we hook up I'm sure we can work it out.

[W Kovacs]

I could have used you today, billw55. Sitting south, I had this hand:

Scoring: IMP

The bidding went:
(1D)-p-(1H)-p
(1S)-p-(4S)-x
(p)-p-(xx)-ap

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Now maybe I should have bid something over the double. But holding my hand, RvsW and knowing that the ops weren't fooling around, I passed.

The ops made 12 tricks for 1280. Looking at the hand record, in 5Dx we can only take 3 tricks if the ops pull our trump. If they are nice and let us ruff a trick, we can take 4 MAYBE 5.

Ludicrous.

Before I forget, billw55. I would prefer 2/1, though I haven't played it very often. How do you feel about four suit transfers and Michaels cuebids? And what kind of hcp range do you like to open in 1st/2nd seat with a 5332 distribution?

[billw55]

W Kovacs, on Oct 1 2010, 01:30 PM, said:

Before I forget, billw55.  I would prefer 2/1, though I haven't played it very often.

okee doke

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How do you feel about four suit transfers and Michaels cuebids? 

OK by me.

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And what kind of hcp range do you like to open in 1st/2nd seat with a 5332 distribution?

Typically 12 or a good 11, up to 14.

However, I believe in flexibility and judgement in bidding, rather than rigid point counts. If you think your 14 is good enough for 1NT, or your 10 count is good enough for 1♠, be my guest, I won't complain.

I was there today but I got started early with a different partner (and a good one - so no horror stories lol). Maybe we can catch each other next week sometime.

[W Kovacs]

billw55, on Oct 1 2010, 02:48 PM, said:

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And what kind of hcp range do you like to open in 1st/2nd seat with a 5332 distribution?

Typically 12 or a good 11, up to 14.

Great! I wanted to know the opening strength so I could know what to GF on. If you werer rigid at 13, I might GF with 11 and a good fit. But since you open a little lighter, I shall be disciplined on the 2/1 calls.

And just to let you knwo, I am an eternal pessimist. I assume everything is breaking badly and bid or work from there.

[bucky]

W Kovacs, on Oct 1 2010, 01:30 PM, said:

The ops made 12 tricks for 1280. Looking at the hand record, in 5Dx we can only take 3 tricks if the ops pull our trump. If they are nice and let us ruff a trick, we can take 4 MAYBE 5.

Maybe your partner didn't have his bid...

[kenberg]

Could be.