Bridge Winners Profile for Ed Shapiro
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- Member Since
- May 28, 2011
- Last Seen
- 9 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Bridge Accomplishments
- NABC winner NA Swiss Teams 1989
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Harrisburg Bridge Club
- Favorite Conventions
- Kaplan-Sheinwold, Blue Team Club systems
- BBO Username
- othered1
- ACBL Ranking
- Diamond Life Master
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- Are you in shape? We weren't
- As east, I bid 3♥, because it's natural bridge, absent lengthy discussions about follow-ups to many investigatory conventions. It's a test for me, an opponent, to be polite and avoid a major case of the giggles as EW try to untie the knot into which they've ...
- Yet another "Is pass forcing"?
- For partner to have that hand, you must play 1♣ P 4♠ as some kind of conventional bid. If our style is to set traps for ourselves, I guess we'd have agreed that this type of auction is not forcing. But isn't it normal that when ...
- ATB
- For years -- my regular partner and I played this long before it had a name -- a jump response, even 4♥ on this auction, was forcing. With less, we'd bid 2N, then bid game. Perhaps not most efficient, but very difficult to confuse, and I don't recall a ...
- Open Philadelphia Discussion Thread
- See also: http://www.philly.com/philly/food/Craig-LaBans-favorites-in-Phillys-Chinatown.html LaBan is the Inquirer's restaurant critic and usually is spot on with recommendations.
- 2NT overcall of a Multi 2!D
- Wastefully, perhaps, extended strong NT values in a hand with tricks, likely a decent suit somewhere, as opposed to a more amorphous hand of similar high card strength, that doubles.
- Meaning of 2NT
- I'm naïve about Good-Bad auctions, but why is it necessary here, after south has passed over 2♠? Assume it's not a psychic or semi-psychic control. And why not 3♣ at North's second turn? Given north's hand, on this auction, south will have 4♣ ...
- 1!H-1N; 2!H-2!S
- For casual partnerships, after 1♥ - 1N - 2♥: Raise to 3♥ is better than an immediate simple raise with 3 trumps; 2♠ has similar high card values with 2 trumps. Mnemonic is 3♥ shows 3-card length.
- Meaning of 2NT response to 2!C?
- 2♥ is natural, 2N shows 5+ controls, forcing to slam. Doesn't come up very frequently, but have had easy auctions when it has.
- Some help needed.
- Seems right to me. But, if I'm to agree play them, they do not absolutely deny 3-card support -- only show 3-card support in a hand worth a raise. Thus, it denies a flat, minimum opening with poor honor distribution.
- What is the Difference
- The first auction has two different cases, one where doubler's partner has not shown values (leb 2N or 3 of a suit when you're not playing lebensohl;) the other, where partner has shown values, such as a non-leb 2N or an encouraging 3 of a new suit. In ...
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