Bridge Winners Profile for Ken Bowlby
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- Member Since
- Nov. 21, 2017
- Last Seen
- Dec. 5
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- Country
- Canada
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- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- London Bridge Club (Ontario, Canada)
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- What's the best use of 2NT here?
- Minors. It can't be "scramble" since you could just pass and defend 2H
- Yet another what does 4NT mean
- Partner and I agree - Blackwood with no agreed suit (or ironclad insistence on a suit) = Key card for our last shown suit.
- It's ATB Time
- North bids over 3S = 100% of the blame (or credit, depending on what happens
- Director Ruling
- One of us is confused: "Yes, a case could be made that continuing hearts was a failure to play bridge but North might have had KJ9 of hearts." South is looking at the H KJ32 in dummy. West (I agree it should have been East) said his 4H bid was ...
- Cuebid, Last Train, Slam-Bidding Problem
- Thanks - I had temporarily overlooked that 2 suits had been bid. Cheers
- Cuebid, Last Train, Slam-Bidding Problem
- Richard, You can see from my prior comment that we are very much on the same wavelength, except that with my regular partner we treat the 3H cuebid as asking for a heart control, rather than showing control. Can you comment on whether your treatment ("showing") is more commonly used ...
- Insufficient Bid over a 2NT Opening Bid
- Ed, I like your reply and get the humor, and in full humor answer that I cannot retrieve the law book because I threw the director in on top of it! Even a POOR director should say (nicely) "Everyone stop!" after the 2D bid. So I can only wonder what ...
- Cuebid, Last Train, Slam-Bidding Problem
- An interesting auction - I would welcome any feedback on my thoughts.... With my partner, 3H could be asking me to bid 3NT with a stopper OR showing 4-cd support + slam interest in Spades: to be clarified next bid, as in your auction. So I could not bid a "serious 3NT ...
- Insufficient Bid over a 2NT Opening Bid
- "Partner says no and promptly bids 2D". Once the director failed to intervene before RHO acted over the 2D bid, there should be a pp against the director! IMHO, the most reasonable assumption is that partner "mis-heard" the question and thought that the "No" meant accepting the bid. However, since ...
- Rare High-Level Decision
- I believe partner needs to know about hearts. With the Ace I will bid 7S and with the King I will bid 6H. Depending on the rest of my hand, if I hold the HA I also have some cute alternative bids: 6NT, 7C, etc., but I also believe we ...
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