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LobowolfXXX
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Posted: Nov 18, 2011 10:16pm
LobowolfXXX and S2000 Magician is currently debuting, on Bridge Base Online, in a one-hour sanctioned tournament. We had a good first round; three to go.
-DFO
"All I wanted to do was work with John for the rest of my life."
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Magnus Eisengrim
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Sulla placed heads on
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Posted: Nov 18, 2011 10:48pm
Ha! More rubber jokes!
Best of luck guys!
John
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tommy
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Devil’s Island
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Posted: Nov 19, 2011 12:20am
Do they know you are magicians?
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy
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LobowolfXXX
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Posted: Nov 19, 2011 12:31am
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On 2011-11-19 00:20, tommy wrote:
Do they know you are magicians?
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Yeah, but they've seen me work, so they weren't too concerned.
-DFO
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S2000magician
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Yorba Linda, CA
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Posted: Nov 19, 2011 1:13am
I, on the other hand, was a closed book: this was my first foray into online bridge.
We had a good time. Slow opponents in the first round hurt us (Lobo played the last hand and got a late play penalty: not his fault), and later a pair who bid 7NT (apparently nobody else did with their cards) also hurt us, but all in all we did OK. I still need to get the swing of playing on a computer, and Lobo and I need to discuss our bidding and carding agreements a little more.
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Devious
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Posted: Nov 19, 2011 1:25am
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Yeah, but they've seen me work, so they weren't too concerned.
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This is the post of the day, Mr. Lobo!
It's going in my next set, out there on the pitch.
Permission requested?
Dev/
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LobowolfXXX
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Posted: Nov 19, 2011 1:50am
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Yeah, but they've seen me work, so they weren't too concerned.
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This is the post of the day, Mr. Lobo!
It's going in my next set, out there on the pitch.
Permission requested?
Dev/
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Help yourself, Dev...have fun with it.
-DFO
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landmark
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Posted: Nov 19, 2011 5:44am
Good luck! So I gather the pair who bid 7NT made their contract? Does online bridge work like Duplicate Bridge where all contestants are playing the same hand or is it more like online chess, head to head, with an immediate rating?
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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S2000magician
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Posted: Nov 19, 2011 10:37am
Yes, they made 7NT. The bums!
And yes, it's duplicate. The game in which we played was scored by International Match Points (IMPs): you compare your score to the scores of the other players who held the same hands as you, and you get IMPs based on the magnitude of the difference. Other games are scored by matchpoints (MPs): you compare your score to the scores of the other players who held the same hands as you, and you get points based on the number of scores you beat, by any amount.
The tactics at IMPs differ considerably from those at MPs. For example, with a choice of games, in the former you'll bid the safer one, even if it's lower-scoring; small differences don't matter much. In the latter, you'll bid the higher-scoring game, even if it's riskier; small differences are worth the same number of MPs as large differences. In the play, at MPs you might risk a finesse for an overtrick when its failure would mean you go down; at IMPs you concentrate on making the contract, and only look for overtricks when the contract's certain.
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LobowolfXXX
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Posted: Feb 19, 2012 11:54am
Three months later, our second tournament outing is about to begin...6 minutes until gametime.
-DFO
"All I wanted to do was work with John for the rest of my life."
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Devious
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Posted: Feb 19, 2012 12:24pm
Break some legs gentlemen! You get my drift?
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Andrew Zuber
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Posted: Feb 19, 2012 1:51pm
When I was younger and my grandparents would talk about playing bridge with their friends, I always pictured them physically building a bridge out of cards. I'm told this isn't how the game is played.
"I'm sorry - if you were right, I would agree with you." -Robin Williams, Awakenings
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S2000magician
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Posted: Feb 19, 2012 3:07pm
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When I was younger and my grandparents would talk about playing bridge with their friends, I always pictured them physically building a bridge out of cards. I'm told this isn't how the game is played. |
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Trust whoever told you that: it's a shrewd analysis.
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mastermindreader
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Posted: Feb 19, 2012 3:17pm
So how is the tournament going?
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LobowolfXXX
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Posted: Feb 19, 2012 3:24pm
We actually played a second one. We had a good one and a bad one. The first one went well...we just outside the top-20 with close to 100 pairs. The second one, we were in the bottom half (though we had a couple of flashes of inspiration).
-DFO
"All I wanted to do was work with John for the rest of my life."
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S2000magician
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Posted: Feb 19, 2012 3:28pm
We played in two speedball tourneys today. The first went OK: Lobo clicked the wrong button and failed to double a slam that went down three tricks, and we missed a slam ourselves, mostly because we haven't played together much. The second session was worse, primarily from my overbidding on two hands, misplay on one, and a very strange opening bid by one of our opponents.
Oh, well.
We'll give it another go tomorrow.
(Note that when Lobo writes "we had a couple of flashes of inspiration", he means it in the regal sense.)
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Devious
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Posted: Feb 19, 2012 4:32pm
Keep at it my friends...we are living vicariously through your travails in "Puente" (Bridge in Spanish).
The Regal Beagles!
Devious Deceptions
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foolsnobody
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Posted: Feb 20, 2012 1:55am
Do you have convention cards up Lobo, S2000? Maybe one day/night one of you will be available and the other won't so we can play some. Some variant of 2/1 I assume?
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LobowolfXXX
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Posted: Feb 20, 2012 2:25am
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On 2012-02-20 01:55, foolsnobody wrote:
Do you have convention cards up Lobo, S2000? Maybe one day/night one of you will be available and the other won't so we can play some. Some variant of 2/1 I assume?
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I have a couple saved... S2000 & I play Kaplan-Sheinwold (5-card majors, weak NT). I play 2/1 with a couple of regular partners (Hardy/Walsh style; notably, reverses after 2/1 bids don't promise extras, unlike Mike Lawrence's version), and precision with a couple of others. Would be happy to get a game with you sometime; I'm on BBO often.
-DFO
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S2000magician
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Posted: Feb 20, 2012 9:27am
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| On 2012-02-20 01:55, foolsnobody wrote:
Do you have convention cards up Lobo, S2000? Maybe one day/night one of you will be available and the other won't so we can play some. Some variant of 2/1 I assume? |
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As Lobo says, we play K/S together.
I have a Std. Am. card, but no 2/1 card, and I'm not on BBO nearly as often as he is. When I'm in Charlotte I play live 2 - 3 times a week, sometimes Std. Am., sometimes 2/1, always with beginner/intermediate partners.
I'd love to play more often. In early March, for example, I'll have time during the weekdays.
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S2000magician
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Posted: Feb 27, 2012 8:47am
We had a pretty good outing on Sunday: we averaged +1.52 IMPs per board over 24 boards. We had only 2 really bad boards: on one the suit splits were bad so even though we were strong enough to be in game (which apparently few bid), the splits killed us, and on the other I made a poor opening lead (and I knew better!) that gave up an overtrick.
We're starting to settle in, though: we'll do a lot better, that's for sure (i.e., the "crushing" part is imminent)!
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Devious
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Posted: Mar 8, 2012 10:21pm
How is the game coming along folks?
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LobowolfXXX
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Posted: Mar 8, 2012 10:26pm
Haven't played in a week or so...hopefully we can fix that soon!
-DFO
"All I wanted to do was work with John for the rest of my life."
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S2000magician
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Posted: Apr 7, 2012 10:11am
Well, we played again on Thursday night and had a pretty good round. We both made some good competitive decisions in the bidding, and got a couple of gifts from the opponents. (Weird ones, at that!) Lobo made one goof as declarer, and I made two on defense: one that mattered big time (I let them make a contract that should have gone down) and another that didn't matter too much (the wrong conventional signal to Lobo). We finished at 58% which is, in my view, spectacular.
I'm starting to shake off the rust of having not played in many, many years, and having not played with a really good partner for even longer.
As of Thursday, I'm up to . . . hang on to your hats! . . . 41.1 masterpoints! (Put in context, a Life Master - which used to be standard for an expert player - requires 300 masterpoints, Lobo has well over 1,000 masterpoints, I have a great story from 1993 of wolloping a partnership that had over 12,000 masterpoints between them, and the lifetime record for masterpoints is over 35,000. In short, I have some room to grow.)
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LobowolfXXX
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Posted: Apr 7, 2012 12:29pm
In fact, the top master point holder is just over double that now! Time flies...
-DFO
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S2000magician
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Posted: Apr 7, 2012 1:00pm
More room then.
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S2000magician
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Posted: Jun 10, 2012 10:56pm
Well, I seem to have finally shaken off the lion's share of the rust. On Friday I dropped a doubleton trump queen offside (with eight trumps) (while playing with another partner) and made a 6NT hand on a finesse and a squeeze (while playing with Lobo). Tonight we had two hands where we both did quite well on defense, reading each other's signals well. In short, we're starting to click.
In our second round I put Lobo in 7 hearts that was likely to need a finesse to succeed, but Lobo's finesses always work, so I wasn't worried. (Lobo was a bit concerned, or so I gathered from his aprčs-game conversation.)
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MagicSanta
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Posted: Jun 11, 2012 12:12am
I have no clue what language you are speaking.
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stoneunhinged
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Göttingen
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Posted: Jun 11, 2012 5:05am
Whatever language it is, we ought to be aware that someone from the NSA is probably now monitoring the Café. What is bridge-language for "hazardous materials incident"?
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S2000magician
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Posted: Jun 11, 2012 8:21am
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What is bridge-language for "hazardous materials incident"? |
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Winkle.
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