Bridge Winners Profile for Avon Wilsmore
Basic Information
- Member Since
- May 5, 2011
- Last Seen
- an hour ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- Country
- Australia
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- A X of 3NT in 1981...
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Double Bay Bridge Centre
- ACBL Ranking
- None
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- Return Partner's Suit?
- Agree with PM - cashing tricks on a particular layout takes precedence over pre-arranged general methods. It may be that partner has to rise to the occasion. C'est la vie.
- Bowling Along 8 - Slip Sliding Away
- I hear that New Zealanders have recently discovered two new uses for sheep: Wool and meat.
- Anticipatory Responses
- CAB lives.
- RR15 Board 5 Great Defense by Pepsi
- Deleted... now redundant.
- Off the rails again
- D. None of the above. I am a big fan of raising with three trumps... to not bid 2♥ with three, a singleton and a minimum hand is a crime against humanity. 1♣ - 1♥ 2♥ - 2♠ * 4♦... * 4-4 majors and forcing It is close ...
- The Cowboy and the Lady
- Robert May, one-time lecturer in mathematics at Harvard, wrote articles on bridge odds for Australian Bridge magazine in the 1970s. Quibblers soon learnt that arguing probability with Prof. May was futile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_May,_Baron_May_of_Oxford Edit: typo
- HISTORY OF BRIDGE : "The first or oldest major facts of the game of Bridge"
- Paul Lavings, at bridgegear.com, has several copies of Eleanor Tenant's book, mentioned above. He also has an extensive set of books on whist, dating back to Edmund Hoyle.
- Kickback applied to Jacoby
- I have played LJS (Lowest Jump Shift) is a serious GF+ raise for over 20 years... that includes 1♠ - 3♣ This frees up a 2NT response to be 13-15 flat, and thereby allows a 2/1 to be a real suit.
- Expulsion from ACBL
- http://web2.acbl.org/discipline/CurrentlyUnderDisciplineList.pdf
- First Official Collusive Cheating Case in Turkey!
- Very interesting article... please keep us posted.
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