Bridge Winners Profile for Shawn Drenning
Basic Information
- Member Since
- March 14, 2011
- Last Seen
- 57 minutes ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Austin, TX player. Trying to get better.
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Bridge Accomplishments
- I have been on the cover of popular bridge publications such as the ACBL bridge bulletin
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Austin Bridge Center
- Favorite Conventions
- KISS
- BBO Username
- fuburules3
- ACBL Ranking
- Ruby Life Master
| Sam Shawn |
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- And I Wanted To ..... (Partner Revenge Fantasies)
- That makes sense to me, but seems for many not enough to overcome flaws of 2♣: https://bridgewinners.com/article/view/bidding-problem-2-9acc3eionb/
- Shawn Drenning's bidding problem: T63 AT6 6532 976
- I had thought too, but a strong player offered that she preferred 2♣
- And I Wanted To ..... (Partner Revenge Fantasies)
- Yes, my point was just that while I agree with what Marty says, in the alternate universe where they do NOT play Texas transfers it's not clear to me whether transferring to 2♥ and then raising to 4 should be a slam try. So maybe even with the ...
- And I Wanted To ..... (Partner Revenge Fantasies)
- I do not think it is necessarily a worse story this way since it more closely matches real life. Personally, I would prefer to bid A10x and keep the bidding at the one level if I'm going to have to bid a 3 card suit.
- Tied pairs winners in a 5 table howell.
- There was a recent Bridgeworld article (the series with arrogant bridge robot) where something like this happened. In the article, they had an overtime where they played some extra boards.
- And I Wanted To ..... (Partner Revenge Fantasies)
- "I wrote this late last night and wanted to finish the story" I feel part of the story is lost if both N and S are doing silly things.
- Invitational Minor Suit Hands Opposite Notrump Opener
- "The frequency of these holdings, as with almost any specific holding, is low - opener would accept on about 1/70,000 hands." I agree that there is not much utility in an invitational sequence that opener will accept 1 in 70,000 times, but I'm suspicious of your math ...
- And I Wanted To ..... (Partner Revenge Fantasies)
- If you do not play Texas transfers is that still what that sequence means?
- Zachary Madden's bidding problem: AQxxxx AJ --- QJTxx
- "If so, why don't I just wait and do so next round?" Because it might go all pass?
- Shawn Drenning's bidding problem: 53 KQ65 AT6 AK97
- if you bid 4♠, do you give up over partner's 5♣?
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