[goobers]

jtfanclub, on May 23 2007, 03:21 PM, said:

Glossary

JS= Jump Shift
Controls: A=2, K=1
GOP=Good old Partner. Also known as CHO (Center Hand Opponent)
ATM=At the Moment
OTOH=On the Other Hand
AMAP=A Map.

Dude thanks, I seriously couldn't figure out what GOP meant. These acronyms make my head spin.

[foo]

jtfanclub, on May 23 2007, 03:21 PM, said:

Glossary

JS= Jump Shift
Controls:  A=2, K=1
GOP=Good old Partner.  Also known as CHO (Center Hand Opponent)
ATM=At the Moment
OTOH=On the Other Hand
AMAP=A Map.

My apologies for the jargon. I thought it was "standard"

correction:
AMAP= "As Much As Possible"

Other "jargon" you will see often in Bridge posts:
ATT= "At The Table"
LTC or MLTC= "Losing Trick Count" or "Modern ..."

losers= Every card not the A, K, or Q of the top 3 cards in a suit.
Suits with only Qxx as the top 3 cards have 2 3/4 losers unless GOP shows values by bidding or length in that suit.
GOP showing general values improves Qxx to 2 1/2 losers.
GOP actually showing length in the suit improves Qxx to 2 losers (or less if they specifically show values in the suit.)

[jtfanclub]

foo, on May 23 2007, 05:04 PM, said:

My apologies for the jargon. I thought is was "standard"

Except on this forum, it is. I did miss AMAP, though.

[goobers]

Every time I read GOP, I thought he was talking about Republicans.

And back to the topic, lol the hand is 5-5, I thought it was 6-5.

[foo]

goobers, on May 23 2007, 05:55 PM, said:

Every time I read GOP, I thought he was talking about Republicans.

And back to the topic, lol the hand is 5-5, I thought it was 6-5.

1= Sorry about that.

2= That's why I hate using "10" instead of "T" when posting hands.
Using "T" reduces the chances of a counting error.

[han]

But it looks so much prettier!

[Gerben42]

We should be using base 12 anyway. So I vote for AKQJT98765432. Or we can use the Roman X for ten but people like x to show a small card...

[Quantumcat]

And it's only fair that, the ten being an honour card, that it gets to be denoted with a letter same as the other honours.

[navit]

I opened with 1 C .pass . partner responded 1 H. PASS. I HAD 4H.18 HCP, 4C, 3S and 2 D. Someone told me to rebid 3S. Is that correct?

[jtfanclub]

navit, on May 27 2007, 05:50 AM, said:

I opened with 1 C .pass . partner responded 1 H. PASS. I HAD 4H.18 HCP, 4C, 3S and 2 D. Someone told me to rebid 3S. Is that correct?

I'd just rebid 4♥ myself. 4 card support, enough to make game across a minimum response, balanced hand (no singletons). If I don't bid 4♥ on this hand, when do I?

And no. While I know that some people bid 3♠ ask for a spade stopper for NT, I have no idea why you'd want to look for no-trump, and at any rate I'd play it as Splinter on that sequence ("spade singleton, 18+ hcp, wanna try for slam"), since if I have good minors and fair support in hearts I could just bid 2♦.

[SoTired]

navit, on May 27 2007, 05:50 AM, said:

I opened with 1 C .pass . partner responded 1 H. PASS. I HAD 4H.18 HCP, 4C, 3S and 2 D. Someone told me to rebid 3S. Is that correct?

dealer, 18hcp, 3=4=2=4, opps silent, bidding was 1C 1H. Some said rebid 3S.

Maybe you should never take advice from those people again.

2S would be a GF jump-shift, not 3S. 3S would be a splinter with singleton/void spade, 4h, GF.

Better bid is 4H. Simple and to the point. You have a GF hand with 4-card support. No more, no less. Why muddy the waters and make partner guess what to do next? Since partner does not know about your heart support, anything partner bids will not likely be useful information.

"Support with support" KISS.