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September 22nd, 2006

Vacation

I’ll be away on vacation for the next week.  I’ll be back for regularly scheduled blogging when I get back (October 1st).
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September 22nd, 2006

USA wins Buffet Cup

The USA, down -1 to 1 “Buffet Point” going into the finaly day of play, pulled out on top to win the first ever Buffet Cup.
More details at http://buffetcup.com/.
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September 21st, 2006

The Buffett Cup

This year, there is a new event on the international bridge cicuit, the inaugural Warren Buffet Bridge Cup. This bridge event was conceived and created by Warren Buffett, the “Oracle of Omaha”.
This tournament is modeled after the Ryder Cup, a golf tournament where the best from the US take on the best from Europe. […]

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September 14th, 2006

Hand generators

I’m currently working on a new system, something a little different from the mainstream. A good idea when trying new changes to a system is to generate some practice hands that fit your new system.
My personal favorite generator on the web is at http://playBridge.com/. Their advanced generator is perfectly suited to creating a […]

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September 12th, 2006

Learning the Game 3 - Introduction to card play

There are many games which have similar card play to bridge.  Bridge is a member of the Whist family of games, or trick taking games.  Other well known examples are Hearts and Spades.
Every suit has an order or rank to the cards.  Ace is the highest card, followed by the King, Queen, Jack, then 10 […]

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September 11th, 2006

5 years later

Today is the 5 year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center.  Everyone in the US was impacted to some degree by these tragic events, and the media is naturally buzzing with stories reflecting on the events of that Tuesday morning 5 years ago.  I wanted to take the time and share my […]

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September 8th, 2006

Atlanta Junior Bridge

A local Atalanta player, Patty Tucker, created a series of bridge camps this summer to teach Atlanta area kids the game.  It’s be an incredible success, including getting over 30 kids to come out and play at the regional event here last week over Labor Day weekend.
There was an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about […]

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September 3rd, 2006

Freakish distribution.

In my previous post, I described this highly unusual hand:

AQTxxx
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AKT9xxx

After 3 passes to me, I chose to open 1C (natural) rather than 2C (strong).
On a different deal yesterday, I had another strong highly distributional hand:

AKQJxxx
AJTxx
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x

This one I chose to open 2C. I’m sure that there are players who would advocate […]

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September 2nd, 2006

Hand evaluation in unusual auctions.

Playing in the Atlanta regional today, my partner held this hand (IMPS, all vulnerable, 2nd seat.):
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