::MadeSix::
Friday, December 17, 2010
You just activated my Beer Card.
So bored. You all faster come back from holiday and play bridge.
Anonymous madesix at 2:58 AM
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Sorry guys, long time no update. A levels drawing closer so I thought I would not study for long periods of time to give you this.
Well, gl for A levels J2s. You die next year J1s. And yup. Cyas.
Anonymous madesix at 4:43 PM
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Monday, January 4, 2010
Johnathan has a good point, I haven't been posting. (oops)
For our recent competitions.....
National Bridge Handicap Team Championships 12-13 Dec
Well nothing much to say really, we got owned pretty bad. But hey, it's how you play the game right?
We couldn't even play the last 2 rounds of the first day because of a certain player shortage. So yeah, I think it's safe to say we qualified for the CONSOLES without even trying.
Consoles was pretty fun, I think we managed to almost beat 1 team.
Overall, I think getting clobbered even with handicapped is pretty sad.... So yeah, lots of work to do guys.
National Youth Team Championships 19-20 Dec
A few things I learnt from the 2 days
1) Khalid is an idiot. Albeit a funny idiot.
2) The word "Youth" is deceiving.
3) Bridge is insanely fun when you're sleep deprived.
4) Watching ur P "sweat it out" while declaring because of your insane, irrational bids is VERY entertaining. (Don't let me catch you doing it)
5) No double no trouble.
6) Trust your P. No exceptions.
7) ALWAYS consider a walkover. It's like a sac bid.
Yeah this was slightly better. Had some pretty ownage streaks. Even had Kiran declare 80% of the boards in 1 round thanks to my awesome bidding.
We maintained ~5th position for the first day and first half of the second day. Then got totally raped by the top 3 teams of the competition and bumped down to 7th. (Refer to lesson 7)
So if you take away those 3 or 4 teams who fake youth, I think we settle pretty nicely into 3rd or 4th. Heh.
Also, we beat a team who beat us a week ago at the handicaps. AND THIS WAS WITHOUT HANDICAPS! Hahahaha that felt great.
They bidded an impossible 4H. Can't remember exactly how the bidding went, but the 4H was after his P preempted. I was thinking "Where are your points!?@ Sac bid while vul?!". End up 4Hx-2 vul, 500 for us plawks. (Should have been -3.... Oops!) Stole our 4S tho, but the other side didn't bid to game so yeah thanks for 8 IMPs.
We also downed their 4S cold, which was for the lulz.
So yeah... That's what went down during the 2 comps. Hope you guys learnt as much as I did and had as much fun as I had. And many thanks to Johnathan for coming down to help with our player deficit for both competitions.
Anonymous madesix at 9:33 PM
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Hi people. I was just conversing with my bridge teacher "Xiao Si" and he provided me with some very valuable insights so I thought I should share with you guys.
Purposes of overcalling:
1) Preemptive (Take up bidding space)
2) Lead-directing
3) Hope to win the contract or push opponents up higher.
So whenever you overcall you should be fulfilling one of these requirements. If not, just pass. Don't need to bid just because you can or you have X+ points and X+ cards.
And he also mentioned:
"If your partner makes a decision and you choose not to trust it, then there's no point playing Contract Bridge." I want to add: Or unless you have a very good reason not to trust it.
Simply because it's a game of partnership.
Okay answer for the previous quiz:
Lead is club 2, strongly suggesting that clubs are divided 4-4. You have 8 tops, because if diamonds don't break you'll always go down, but you can't always assume that. So does your 9th trick come from hearts or spades? Answer is spades. You can establish one easy winner and opponents can take 3clubs and the spade ace only. If you try hearts, and it wins, you're home as well, but if it fails, opponents and cash the spade ace for down one. Whereas if you try spades, regardless of where the Ace is, you can always take 9 tricks.
Lesson points: Inferring from opening lead, making the safety play.
hongaik madesix at 12:20 AM
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Ok one puzzle for you all. This is rated as fairly easy, does not really involve counting opponents' cards but your techniques (how you manage the suits which block each other up).
♠ AQxx
♥ 9xx
♦ AKJx
♣ AK
Contract: 6♥
Lead: ♠2
♠ x
♥ AKQJT
♦ xx
♣ QT987
Everyone try ok? As in EVERYONE!! Post answers on the tagboard.
(Oh yes, ♥ trumps are 4-1 to East. But you only know that after cashing the second round of ♥ trumps
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Solution
Ok first of all, you should reject any finesse of all sorts. Look from your hand's point of view. You have no ♠ ♦ or ♥ losers. The only possible loser is the ♣J.
So what can be more wrong than to win the first trick with the ♠A, draw 2 rounds of trumps, discovering that trumps are 4-1. (If they were 3-2 instead, you could draw all the trumps, cash ♣AK, ruff a ♠ back to your hand and play ♣ from the top. You will score 13 tricks if the J drops. But if it doesn't, surrender a ♣, ruff the ♠ return with your last trump and the rest are good. Or if they return ♦, you can ruff the ♠ yourself to get back to your hand to score the last winning ♣. 12 tricks.)
Ok back to 4-1 trump break. If you continue drawing trumps (4 rounds of them), then you have to cash ♣AK next then get back to your hand via a ruff using your 5th trump. If the ♣J doesn't fall on the ♣Q next, then you have to rely on the ♦ finesse for your 12th trick (if you surrender a ♣, they can cash ♠ and you cannot ruff).
A better improvement will be to draw 2 rounds of trumps, discovering the 4-1 break. Then, cash ♣AK before using the dummy's ♥9 to cross back to your hand to draw 2 more rounds of trumps. Then play ♣ from the top. This way, if the ♣J falls then you have 13 tricks, otherwise, you can surrender a ♣ and will still have a trump to ruff the ♠ return. However, the problem is that the defender holding 4 trumps may trump your second round of ♣. It is unlucky that ♣ are 5-1. But you should have prevailed.
The correct line of play is to win the ♠A, then draw 2 rounds of trumps (bad break). Then cash ♣K only, before playing 2 more rounds of trumps to draw finish the defenders' trumps. But on the 4th round of trump, throw away your ♣A (!). Now you can play ♣ from the top (losing to ♣J eventually) without losing trump control. This caters to 5-1 ♣ break.
Did I mention that my nickname is Jeffery Jettison?
Sherman madesix at 2:39 AM
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Some bridge laws on conduct and ettiquette.
Players should refrain from:
1) Making gratuitous comments during the play as to the auction or the adequacy of the contract.
2) Detaching a card from his hand before it is his turn to play.
3) Indicating approval or disapproval of a call or play
4) Indicating the expectation or intention of winning or losing a trick that has not been completed.
5) Commenting or behaving during the auction or play so as to call attention to a significant occurrence, or to the state of the score or to the number of tricks still required for success.
6) Looking intently at any other player(HAHAHAHAH), but it is alright to act on information acquired from inadvertently seeing an opponent's card(therefore hold your cards close to you)
Players should:
1) Maintain at all times a courteous attitude toward his partner and opponents.
2) Carefully avoid any remark or action that might cause annoyance or embarrassment to another player or might interfere with the enjoyment of the game.
Yup.
Source: http://web2.acbl.org/laws/rlaws/lawofcontractbridgecombined_2004.pdf
hongaik madesix at 12:25 AM
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Hello people. I know you guys are stressed out mugging for Promos/Prelims/doing PW so here's a mini-quiz to tickle your brain.
KQ84
AQ76
654
54
52
JT2
A3
AKQT76
You're in a 3NT contract and the lead is the two of clubs. Think about how you would play this deal for the best chance of 9 tricks. Okay amendment. Don't assume diamonds are breaking. It may, it may not be.
hongaik madesix at 10:07 PM
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