Bridge Winners Profile for Will Roper
Basic Information
- Member Since
- July 28, 2013
- Last Seen
- 3 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
24 year old who has played bridge for a larger proportion of their life than the chance of him taking a successful finesse. Unfortunately, the wrong number is growing in this regard. Apparently "studied" engineering in London.
Love bridge, not much else to it
Favourite convention: Dopi Ropey
- Country
- United Kingdom
Bridge Information
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Anyone from the Preddy clan
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Young Chelsea
- Favorite Tournaments
- Spring Foursomes, Gold Cup, Anything I can get to abroad
- Favorite Conventions
- Systems and understandings in competitive auctions
- BBO Username
- B Psyches
- ACBL Ranking
- None
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- Different Defenses Against No Trump in Direct vs. Balancing Seats?
- I play the same system in both seats (its been on my things to discuss with partner list for about 2 years) so the below is less experience based and more hypothetical (mostly stolen from a top international partnership): vs Weak NT: In 2nd seat, your range for overcalls is ...
- Adam Parrish's bidding problem: Q42 A5 KT5 KQ962
- Some people play 3♠ as ♦. I personally in this situation would play it as natural offering 4♠. Obviously if there was less space 1NT-2♦-2♥-3♦ then 3♠ becomes more logical as ♦. As a sidenote, A big junior craze around 4-5 years ago which ...
- What is the difference?
- So firstly let me just check that my basics are correct: Without screens: You inform the opps as to a misexplanation at the end of the auction if you are the declaring side, and at the end of play if defending to prevent UI. With screens: You are not entitled ...
- Should This NLM Stay in his Lane?
- Enough has been said about who should have said what etc. I personally prefer to focus on the bridge. With that in mind: 1. West might have put back the Q♥ instead of the K♥ to try and obscure East's HCP. Similarly East maybe should encourage ♥ ...
- Mike Gill's bidding problem: xx AKQxxxxx x xx
- Disclaimer 1: This may be just my experience of these spots. Disclaimer 2: I hate the fact I am backing pass Whenever partner has the hand where the "sac" works perfectly they raise me to 6. This combined with the pass over 3♦ doesn't fill me with hope.
- Divertimento
- @Mike S: 1NT+3 looks cold to me (yet to see a killing defence) so i don’t think it matters what South does at this (or any) point.
- Play 6NT
- @Richard. Say West switches to a Spade. We can now set up this ending: Q x - W <> - Kx x - This is a really good position to be in. Definitely far better than most other options. Hence a ♥ is clearly a more dangerous return from LHO
- Play 6NT
- @Richard imo, the T♦ is better then a heart and a diamond to the T as it gives LHO the opportunity not to return another heart (not good for us). Assuming we do play the T♦ and they do return a heart (and hearts are 5=2 as ...
- Play 6NT
- If ♣ break what we do at T2 is "mostly" irrelevant. If we cash ♣ and have one club loser then we go for this position: AQx - - - <> x x x - For this to work RHO cannot have: a) K♠ b) 4+♥ and 4+♦ If we lead a ...
- Going Down Swinging
- There was a national pairs session several years ago where my partner and I averaged 29% for the first 12 boards and 77% for the second 12.
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