I'm planning to be there for the LM pairs and spingold

Usually more people come for first weekend than last weekend, not sure if thats true of the POG crew

Everyone post which events you are going for so which dates u will be here

I can go for any of it, mostly evenings and weekends tho....also, I'm looking for people to pard in random events so let me know if interested

These dates are

LM Pairs: 8/2 - 8/4
Spingold: 8/5 - 8/11

Obv since I am going to bink the Spingold (5k) I am not going to need to play the 8/10-11 Swiss, but that would be on the radar if I got KO'd.

So far:
Wyman - 8/2 to 8/11
Nich - entire time
Myrm - 8/2 or 8/11 weekend
FMK - ???
Chuck - ???
Dustin - ???

Add your name and dates to the list

pretty sure FMK will be there the whole time

Wow, I guess I may be back from Alaska in time to zip down. Probably for the second half of it — I'll miss the LM pairs, but if I can find a Spingold team, I could do that.

I get in on July 30th, and leave on the 5th. Unfortunately could only stay for GNT as I plan on going to Phx too and can only get so much time off lol.

Anyone going to be in Vegas between 7/9-7/13? Taking my annual trip...

Very fun hand from the other night:

N/S Vulnerable - I'm South

S
-
J9763
JT8
KJT95

Pass - 1 - Pass - 2NT (Jacoby) - 3 - 4 - 5 -5 - Pass - Pass - 6 - Double - Pass - Pas - Pass

West leads 5

Full Reveal

You bid 3-vulnerable-clubs on that cheese? Bridge4rollz?

It's hard for EW to bid the slam with the interference. EW should have an agreement about what pass, dbl, and bidding mean after 3C. W may be able to show his singleton club, but it's hard to disagree with west's 4S call, after which E should not have serious slam interest anyway with all those bad diamonds.

I'm not terribly good at cardinal directions and the formatting is a little weird, but isn't the EW slam off 2 diamond tricks and a heart?

I think the hand with 6 clubs, xxx in S, and a void bid 3C

Yeah as I read it EW need the ace of diamonds on and hearts 3-2 (or stiff J onside with the ace of diamonds).

Then either Moni (S) is not declarer or west is not on lead...

In an uncontested auction it should be easy to figure stuff out with standard Jacoby:

1S 2NT; 3C (shortness)

I'd propose 3H; 4D 4H; 4NT etc

Are all you Atlanta-goers staying at the host site? I'm debating staying in midtown where there's a little more going on.

You mean you aren't gonna play bridge 20 hours/day?

no 5 clubs and void in hearts, my main intention was lead direction

also i meant small slam for EW - i imagine it has pretty good prospects with good heart fit - even missing the ace of dimes it has maybe 45%? to make

I could play bridge for fun 20 hrs a day. Playing bridge to the best of my ability -- I can barely do that for a full session, and I'll already have to do it for 2/day.

No, I would like someplace with bars and decent meals. The flipside of that is that most of my bridge friends will be at the host site, so idk if they'll want to go to midtown.

I like to play two-suit overcalls against game-forcing auctions, with the suit bid being the lower of the two touching suits. So against opps' 1S – 2NT, 3C would C+D, 3D is D+H, and 3H would be H+C. Double can be a one-suiter. Unfortunately this takes away the lead-direction aspect, so another approach is to play this method only when vulnerable. (Note the memory strain, though.)

Another possibility is to do it inverted psycho suction style, so each suit bid shows either the suit bid and the next suit up, or the suit below it. You can then apply double to it, too, as a fake heart (or spade, if opps' suit is hearts) bid, so:

• X — M+C, or D (but you could also psych this with clubs only, without damage because you can't get to 3C anyway)
• 3C — C+D, or M
• 3D — D+M, or C

Of course, when playing inverted psycho suction of any sort, advancer needs to take false preference if he's unsure what opener has, but in this case it's not as necessary because opps aren't floating an undoubled three level overcall in their game-forcing major fit auction.


I'd play it that using the one-suiter method suggests a lead, while with a pure preemptive onesuiter it is best to bid to the four level immediately. Or you could reverse those.

Plenty of bars and restaurants near Hyatt...it's the one on Peachtree in midtown near Ga Tech? you can walk to plenty of places and even to Centennial Park or Underground

That psych seems unwise, partner bids 4S over 1H-2NT-(dbl) with 5/5 spades and diamonds and you will not be pleased

Good point — I hadn't thought it through. I have only gotten to play this method with one partner, and he pretty much never used it, so my experience with it is limited.

w/r MPs


7 4
A 7 6 5 4 3 2 (trip straight flush booyah)
J T 8 7

We're in 4th chair and bidding goes:
(p)-p-(2)-2(!)
(X)-p-(p)-3
(X)-ap

End up going down 2 in 3D, when 6 from the other side is cold. Our opponents complain that I mislead them, and the score is adjusted to +680 for our opponents.

Is this allowed in ACBL land? I was the under impression you can bid whatever the hell you want, as long as you're not transmitting hidden information to your partner.