Thank you all for all the kind and sweet words. It warms my heart to have so many friends. I was quite lucky, and my bot partner played a lot better than the opponents.
As a small favor, can someboody teach me how to pronounce Jan's tongue twister correctly ...
Big thanks to Steve and everyone else for so many kind words. I was very lucky to come in first in a robot tournament, but I am luckier still to have so many good friends!
This board is among my top 3 regrets from Philadelphia. I finally figured out why I should have covered the club two seconds after I had ducked it ;)
Partner opened a preempt on a 5-bagger. North was not going to have honor fourth in a major on the side. In ...
It is going to pain me to write this comment. I used to really like Adam Z. He was fun to kibitz and for 3 years between 2012 and 2015 I thought I could learn something from him.
Nevertheless, I would be remiss not to point out a fundamental data ...
I perpetrated this auction (1♥) - 4♥ on board 16 of the 2nd final of Blue Ribbon Pairs in Denver 2015. At the time we played this call as showing 6 spades, a 5 card minor and enough playing strength to be in game. While my hand roughly matched ...
For avoidance of ambiguity, I find the tone and language of the OP and subsequent comments by the same person completely unacceptable. My call for taking the high road is a statement that when we deal with confrontational posts like that, we can and should treat third parties with proper ...
EW partnership are friends of mine. I frequently challenge them for online matches, because they are nice people who generally play sound and occasionally inspired bridge right down the middle. It is a great practice for national events.
I have been playing in tournaments for about 18 years. Never in ...
Partner and I discussed this one with a small variation that LHO actually raised to 4D.
We thought declarer should play a spade to the ace. Assume both follow low. Then play HA, DA tossing H from dummy, HK, club from dummy to the ace in hand, then exit spade ...
That was memorable. Having scored only 7.5 in the first session, I was just hoping, maybe, we could improve a bit and cobble together a semblance of a decent set. First board out of the box we bid 1N-3N like we are supposed to. And then we get this ...