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Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Deal of the Week
Wednesday, August 13 |
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| A New Game at Bridge Ace |
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On Saturday, August 23, 2008, we will run our first duplicate pair event scored barometer style.
A barometer game differs from other pair games mainly in the order everyone plays the boards and by the logistics of the scoring.
In the usual pair event, all (or most) of the boards are in play every round. The boards move from table to table at the end of each round so that eventually all pairs play most of the boards at some time during the session. Depending on the number of tables in play and the number of rounds played, many of the boards may not be played at every table. This means that two competing pairs can play many different boards.
It may be bridge, but it's not duplicate bridge!
In a barometer game the boards don't move from table to table after each round. Each table gets its own complete set of boards. All tables play the same boards at the same time throughout the event. For example, on the first round, all pairs play boards 1-3; on round two everyone plays boards 4-6. This requires many preduplicated sets of boards (which is only feasible with a dealing machine). Each set of boards goes out of play after one round. Perhaps most importantly, every pair in the game plays exactly the same boards as every other pair.
As usual, scores are entered into the BridgePad terminals at the completion of each board at every table. As a result, all scores for a given set of boards are available as soon as the round is completed. Actual results are posted every round, so each pair knows exactly where it stands. Any given pair's fortunes rise and fall as the game goes on - hence the name barometer.
We expect this to become an extremely popular game, and will run it on a regular basis. Mark your calendars now for the first Barometer Pairs in South Florida! |
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| Greetings!
Monday, Bernie Chazen gave a lecture at Bridge Ace. The main theme of his lecture was that you should be conservative with balanced hands but when you have a distributional hand, you should bid aggressively.
In this week's Deal of the Week, from the STaC game on Wednesday, several people took Bernie's lesson to heart, but went a little overboard. One of them asked me after the game where she went wrong.
Here is the deal:
East passed and South opened 1 . West, my questioner, overcalled 1 . This was fine, with her 10 HCP and 5-5 distribution (although a Michaels 2, showing a weak hand with both majors, would have been better).
I asked her what went wrong. She answered that because she overcalled 1 , she ended up in 4 , down one instead of 4  , making four.
I calmly pointed out that both contracts must go down since you have to lose three spades and the Ace of diamonds in either contract. But I wondered how they got to the four-level anyway.
She said that partner raised to 2 , South bid 3 , and she bid 3 .
I explained that her problem was not her original overcall, it was her second bid. 3 was actually a game try in spades.
The moral of the story is that it is a good thing to bid aggressively when you have good distribution, but you should not tell the same story twice! |
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Bridge Ace is owned and operated by Rich Waugh - the most respected director in South Florida for over twenty-five years. Rich is a Silver Life Master and professional player, teacher and director. He has directed duplicate bridge full time, on land and at sea, here and abroad, for over thirty years - countless sections in more than 20,000 games. He knows what players want and need and he knows how to provide it. | |
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