Bridge Winners Profile for Avon Wilsmore
Basic Information
- Member Since
- May 5, 2011
- Last Seen
- 2 hours 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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- Apportion the Blame
- Yes, 3♠ is superior and South's actions after 4♦ are bizarre. And a courageous double of 6♥... not so easy to shoot 6♠.
- Control
- The Weaker Suit For Trumps, Felix Vondracek, Bridge World Feb 1956. https://www.bridgeworld.com/indexphp.php?page=/pages/readingroom/bridgedictionary.html [/b]Vondracek phenomenon[/b] The occasional deal on which the weaker of two (or the weakest of three) identically distributed potential trump suits offers the superior contract. Named ...
- Liam Milne's lead problem: 9732 KJT9762 --- Q5
- https://sites.google.com/site/psmartinsite/Home/bridge-articles/remembering-john-lowenthal
- Best line?
- Remind me to lead from Kxx trump against that East...
- Responsive Doubles - What is "standard"?
- The original Responsive Double was devised in 1954 by Dr Fielding-Reid, and applied to suit-X-raise-X only.
- Maddison Square Gardens - unusual bridge event
- Shireen: Try https://www.newspapers.com/ Subscription-based, not expensive, and their articles were a great help in my Blue Team research. Putting in: culbertson match "madison square gardens" gets nearly 8000 hits (many will be duplicates) and you can filter by date.
- Maddison Square Gardens - unusual bridge event
- Bridge For Beginners: A Complete Course, Mahmood, Grant, Sharif, chapter 6 [i]When Ely Culbertson staged a bridge match between his American team and Great Britain, he had actors in Madison Square Garden dress up as playing cards and duplicate the plays made before a packed crowd of spectators.[/i]
- Odd-Even and Encrypted Signals
- If "A simple overcall in a suit shows 8 - 12 points...", a two-level overcall cannot be forcing. 1957/134 This is Avarelli's 2♦ overcall, 2nd seat, fav, over 1S: ♠ 8 ♥ KJ54 ♦ J108743 ♣ Q2 1959 Final/24 This is Belladonna's 2♦ overcall, 2nd ...
- Odd-Even and Encrypted Signals
- Charles, I think you are making an error here. The text says: [i]DEFENSIVE BIDS AFTER AN OPENING BID AT THE ONE LEVEL (1) SUIT BID – A simple overcall in a suit shows 8 - 12 points and a one-suited hand, intended particularly to give partner a good lead if opponents ...
- Odd-Even and Encrypted Signals
- I can help with 1969... PM me...
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