Bridge Winners Profile for Ken Bowlby
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- Member Since
- Nov. 21, 2017
- Last Seen
- April 3
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- Country
- Canada
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- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- London Bridge Club (Ontario, Canada)
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- Escaping after partner opens a weak NT
- We open 1NT with 12-14 and use Guoba Rescue which, after the direct DBL, allows us to "escape" with any single suited or 2-suited hand. When the opponents DBL in balancing seat and it comes around to responder, a suit bid is to play and RDBL means "start running" in ...
- Peg Kaplan's bidding problem: AKQJT --- A9862 AQ7
- IMO, any hand that would cause partner to pass 3D would be so poor that bidding 3NT would not be a great 2nd choice. I bid 4C without the hesitation, so bid it with the hesitation. I will happily call the director on myself, and be ready to apologize if ...
- What does a hesitation suggest here?
- The need to think before choosing pass or choose to play 3C (or 3D)
- TD please
- David, would you please help me understand what hand you would hold as East, including an 8-cd heart suit, and make no bid over the 1D opening bid, plus then bid 1H in response to partner's balancing dble?
- 1NT or 1C
- I would open 1NT, mostly because it is our point range (according to the author) and I try to shy away from making anti-agreement bids that will leave partner wondering far too often. However, I agree with the added strength of the hand, and have no big issue with a ...
- Does a "Hand Generator" exist that .......
- Thanks to both of you. I investigated both suggestions, and tried the (FREE & IMMEDIATE) playbridge.com site. It gives me exactly what I want. I'm sure Dealmaster also does, but don't want to wait for CD's. Cheers, and thanks again
- Lame Claims
- If I could, I would claim one less trick for declarer, but not one more trick for me. Declarer needs to learn a valuable lesson
- ATB: The five level
- 3H, 4D & 4H are all better bids by north than 4S!
- TD please
- With my regular partner I would be surprised that he alerted 3S - Seems reasonably natural to me, as does the 4S bid (East simply wants to advise "I have 5 Hearts in case it matters to you)
- Junk Stayman with 4-4 Majors
- Thanks for your suggestions, Kerry. Just to clarify, I did not actually identify who bid 1NT & who bid 2C. Publicly, partner and I try very hard to use only the word "we" when we have a great or terrible result - In private, we discuss in detail for (hopefully) our future ...
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