Bridge Winners Profile for Tony Rolfe
Basic Information
- Member Since
- July 17, 2018
- Last Seen
- 7 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
I'm an above average club-level player who started way back in the 1960's playing Acol at school. Between school and Uni I played a lot of bridge at Cardiff bridge club and later represented Sheffield University in the late 60's. I started playing Little Major at Uni and had great fun and some success with it as a system.
I stopped playing when my job didn't give me the time to play, but I still kept an interest in the game and developed my brown-sticker multi-two system during that period.
After leaving England, living in Bermuda for 5 years and moving to Sydney, Australia I eventually moved to the Ulladulla area on the NSW South Coast in 1994. I soon discovered the local bridge club and started playing again after nearly 30 years. The default system at Mollymook is Standard (5CM SNT) but I didn't enjoy that scheme. When Little Major became legal in Australia I played that with one partner for a couple of years and then we developed our own system based on 11-14 NT, 5CM, unbalanced diamond and a short forcing club. Almost all responses to 1-level openings are transfers.
I am now an Australian Silver Life Master, hoping to live long enough to become Gold Life Master.
- Country
- Australia
Bridge Information
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Mollymook bridge club.
- Favorite Tournaments
- Local congresses (Nowra, Batemans Bay, Mollymook)
- Favorite Conventions
- Transfers! My favourite system uses transfers over all 1-level openings.
- ACBL Ranking
- None
- Transfers after 1NT - 2C - 2D?
- There's nothing new under the sun, is there? Do you have any links to their methids?
- Transfers after 1NT - 2C - 2D?
- My ideas for the 2♥ bid... 2♥..... Puppet to spades, promises 4 hearts and 5+ spades 2♠.....Forced, then... Pass.....Weak 5+♠/4♥ 2NT.....any invitational 5♠/4♥ ..... Pass..... declines invitation, 2 spades ..... 3♣/3♦.....Accepts invitation, 2 spades, weak in ...
- Transfers after 1NT - 2C - 2D?
- The 3-level bids do give me some ideas. I'm pretty well settled on 2♥ to show all 4♥/5+♠ hands and I can show all GF 5440/5431/5422 plus invitational/GF 6+♠ below 3NT. That has taken a lot of stress off the other ...
- Transfers after 1NT - 2C - 2D?
- Looking closer at the 2♥ bid, if I make it a puppet, opener must bid 2♠. Then responder can pass, right-siding weak hand, bid 2NT with any invitational 5/4 (opener passes, bids 3♠/3NT/4♠ or bids a minor if worried about the other minor ...
- Transfers after 1NT - 2C - 2D?
- Ideally I'd like this transfer structure to mirror the 2♠ and up bids directly over 1NT, as in my 1NT engine thread. The obvious difference being that those deny a major and these promise one. My basic plan was to use 2♥ as 5+ spades, 4 hearts ...
- Director?
- Our second hand double of a multi 2♦ is "Penalty of one major, takeout of the other" and the East hand fits like a glove. We end up doubling whichever major they bid.
- Queen of Trumps ask when playing RKCB 1430
- Kantar suggests using 14/30 when the strong hand asks, but 30/14 when the weak hand asks since the most useful/likely response in both cases is 5♣, allowing 5♦ as the Queen ask. That does mean that you have to know which is the strong hand ...
- Queen of Trumps ask when playing RKCB 1430
- That makes sense, Mike. I'll have a chat with partner.
- Escaping after partner opens a weak NT
- My escape: Pass forces redouble and is either willing to stand 1NTxx or knows where it wants to run. XX is any 4333, pick a suit 2♣, 2♦, 2♥ is weak and the lower of two 4+ suits 2♠ up are strong single-suited or 2-suited hands ...
- Queen of Trumps ask when playing RKCB 1430
- After a 0/3 or 1/4 response, 5 of the trump suit is pass with 0/1, show the Queen with 3/4. The cheapest other suit bid is show the Queen regardless. Any other suit bid is Specific King ask. 6 Trumps denies the Queen, new suit shows ...