Bridge Winners Profile for Will Roper
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- Member Since
- July 28, 2013
- Last Seen
- 3 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
23 year old junior who has played bridge for over half their life.
Apparently "studied" engineering in London.
Love bridge, not much else to it
Favourite convention: Dopi Ropey
- Country
- United Kingdom
Bridge Information
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Louise Selway
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Young Chelsea
- Favorite Tournaments
- Spring Foursomes, Gold Cup, Anything I can get to abroad
- Favorite Conventions
- TMNT = Too Many Needless Transfers
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- B Psyches
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- World Youth Team Championships August 8-18 2018
- Want to start out by saying bad luck to both US teams, both will come away from this stronger I imagine. Lot of talk about the 1400 board. Imps swing all the time (especially us juniors). I am actually more curious as to why USA1 was playing Singapore in the ...
- 1NT opening, 2S range check, 2 ways to invite with a long minor.
- When I was playing Weak NT we put all weak sign-offs through 2♣. It isn't hard to make 2♣-2x-2NT = ♣ and put ♦ hands out in 3♦ or 2♦ depending on Stayman type. These days my structure is a bit simpler: 2♠ = ♣ or ...
- When they double 3NT
- Due to my approach and the fact that some players I play frequently against are simply doubling to get me to run, I prefer the approach of reasons to play in 3NT rather than reasons to run. Playing teams there is clearly even more upside to sticking. I would guess ...
- 1NT opening, 2S range check, 2 ways to invite with a long minor.
- This seems to missing out on the best advantage of Puppet* Imagining 3♣ (standard) as our Puppet bid. 1NT-3♣ 3♦-3M 3♦ = No 5cM 3M = 4oM This is really useful for hands that just want to play 3NT/4M and don't want to give the Opps ...
- 1NT opening, 2S range check, 2 ways to invite with a long minor.
- I would argue that this isn't a spot in which you are going to miss a lot of slams with reasonable methods. Missing thin games though is crucial. The added advantages of Kits approach is you get to play in 2NT which is useful at MP opposite some of ...
- When they double 3NT
- So my views on this are fairly (probably far too) comprehensive. I am not a huge fan of stopper variants which Kit and others have advised above. This is not because they don’t work (they do), but because of the memory load. If RHO doubles 3NT for penalties (or ...
- Will Roper's bidding problem: 765 KT965 AK2 AQ
- I DBLed. Partner had 5♠-4♥ so we reached the wrong game. 4♥ is the big winner. As said this came up two years ago I thought at the time my usual bridge is hard. However, it has led me to wonder how useful 4♦ is here ...
- Will Roper's bidding problem: 765 KT965 AK2 AQ
- Nice logic and Norman S agrees with you fwiw. The problem with this logic in reality was most tables were pre-empting 3♣ and we have an easy 9-10 tricks in 3NT.
- Will Roper's bidding problem: 765 KT965 AK2 AQ
- Nope although opps were juniors :-) Nor is this a poll for a ruling as most of mine seem to be these days. This was my hand and came up two years ago.
- Defending the 2!c overcall in Multi-Landy / Woolsey
- Personally, the most important things to me about this spot are 2M = Natural and 3M = SPL with both minors. Fitting that around a Rubensohl structure gives you: DBL = Values 2♦/2M = Natural; NF 2NT = ♣ 3♣ = ♦ 3♦ = Stop ask 3M = SPL with at least 5-4 minors
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