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#1 User is offline   Xmalinoise 

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  Posted 2024-September-07, 23:30


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Posted 2024-September-08, 01:11

Robot or real?
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Posted 2024-September-08, 13:13

I would have opened all except W (and maybe even that if my partner was a robot).

This has nothing to do with Natural Bidding unless we are in a loony bin (insert politically correct alternative).
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Posted 2024-September-08, 13:52

Bot playing is a game with the exact same rules as bridge. But is a different game nonetheless.
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Posted 2024-September-08, 14:56

N should have openend 4 the rest is OK 6
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Posted 2024-September-08, 15:13

No - North should open 5. I wouldn't raise as South.
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Posted 2024-September-08, 17:20

North should have opened 2 and raised partner's 2 response to 6
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Posted 2024-September-08, 17:42

Good auction. Both pairs were on the clock for slow play and were on the verge of being penalized. Passing the board out got them back on schedule.
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Posted 2024-September-08, 18:02

View Postjohnu, on 2024-September-08, 17:42, said:

Good auction. Both pairs were on the clock for slow play and were on the verge of being penalized. Passing the board out got them back on schedule.

Were the medics called to check for a pulse?
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Posted 2024-September-09, 06:12

View Postjohnu, on 2024-September-08, 17:42, said:

Good auction. Both pairs were on the clock for slow play and were on the verge of being penalized. Passing the board out got them back on schedule.


Were they getting coffee? It's Board 1.
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Posted 2024-September-09, 12:16

View Postjillybean, on 2024-September-08, 17:20, said:

North should have opened 2 and raised partner's 2 response to 6

I know quite a few Acol players who would genuinely have opened this hand 2 prior to ER25.
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Posted 2024-September-09, 14:50

Noone had the required 13 hcp to open.
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Posted 2024-September-09, 17:43

View PostZelandakh, on 2024-September-09, 12:16, said:

I know quite a few Acol players who would genuinely have opened this hand 2 prior to ER25.

The Definition
A hand containing
(a) 23+ HCP if balanced or semi-balanced or;
(b) 20+ HCP if unbalanced (with allowance for distribution – 1 point for every card after the ninth card in the two longest suits)

Note: Losing trick count, alone, is not adequate for determining whether a hand qualifies as a Game Force hand.

This, or one of the many other rules
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Posted 2024-September-09, 18:28

View Postpilowsky, on 2024-September-09, 06:12, said:

Were they getting coffee? It's Board 1.

Board 1, but not usually hand #1.
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Posted 2024-September-10, 15:09

Both partnerships wanted to practice their recently discussed defensive signals.
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Posted 2024-September-11, 05:49

 AL78, on 2024-September-10, 15:09, said:

Both partnerships wanted to practice their recently discussed defensive signals.

U made my day :)
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Posted 2024-September-12, 15:40

View Postjohnu, on 2024-September-09, 18:28, said:

Board 1, but not usually hand #1.

And when it is both, you are at the the table of the mobility challenged pair who for some reason usually turn out to be tough opponents :)

Maybe in real life:
1 1 2 4;
X P 4NT(RKCB) P;
5(2+Q) P 6 P;
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Posted 2024-September-13, 19:11

View Postjillybean, on 2024-September-08, 17:20, said:

North should have opened 2 and raised partner's 2 response to 6

I don't know who the RA was for this, but in ACBL I don't think you can do that.
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Posted 2024-September-13, 19:57

View Postblackshoe, on 2024-September-13, 19:11, said:

I don't know who the RA was for this, but in ACBL I don't think you can do that.

I WAS joking. :)
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Posted 2024-September-14, 11:32

It would be legal Open/+ Chart for those who Alert their 2 openers (because they are not Very Strong). It is Average, because it is rule of 19 (rule of 20 even).

But yeah, I hope that's a joke.
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