Over the weekend I played three micro-tournament sessions at BridgeBaseOnline, 12 boards apiece, where each player gets his/her own table along with three robots; such an arrangement is typically known as a Robot Tournament. Each robot plays a variant of 2/1, though you don't need to know the particulars of 2/1 to join in this complete misadventure ( Read more... )

Pickup Partner and I were at it again, hoping to get some more silver, when along came this deal (South dealt, E-W vulnerable):

Me
♠ 9 6
♥ 4 2
♦ J 4
♣ A K Q J 7 5 2

West
♠ A K 10 5 4
♥ J 9 3
♦ A K Q
♣ 10 8

East
♠ 8 7 3
♥ K Q 10 7 6 5
♦ 9 6 3
♣ 4

Pickup Partner
♠ Q J 2
♥ A 8
♦ 10 8 7 5 2
♣ 9 6 3
Now, the bidding normally proceeds something like ( Read more... )

So, my pickup partner from the 4th of July Regional wanted to get in on some other local tournaments, so I agreed to join in some pairs events. In the first such event, we ran into a very interesting situation.

( What the heck do you do with this? )

Yesterday a few of my young colleagues and I decided that we wanted to run around South Beach for awhile, but when the time came to meet up, Team Procrastination lived up to its name. At least I got some course prep done ( Read more... )

Hey, another Bridge post. Also, I have a new icon now. Beware! :)

Doubling Bandit came down for Memorial Day, and so he and BestFriend naturally decided to have dim sum. Later we'd meet up with SS for some Bridge action.

During our rather tumultuous session, I picked up the following:

♠ 10 7 5 4 3 ♥ 3 ♦ J ♣ A K 10 8 3 2 ( Read more... )

I promised a Bridge post, didn't I ( Read more... )

Late last night, BM made a surprise visit, and so we gathered up BestFriend and headed to Lester's, because that's what we do. Unfortunately they were about to clean the grills, so we headed instead to Primanti Bros. Mmm, late night pizza. After that, we hatched a plan to rendezvous with SS and play some nice Bridge. Which we did until about 4:30a ( Read more... )

This week I'm mostly reacting to a massive homework assignment. This was issued from the same professor who issued me that 'meaningless' homework assignment earlier, but this one looks very appropriate for what we're doing in class this time. *Now* we'll see if we've learned something ( Read more... )

-- Friday --
Weird Bridge action, where JW and I got to have some fun in an extended period of time. We were training two novices when, after several hours, they picked up a most remarkable pair of hands and got off to this sequence:

JW KJ 
Me AO

1S

P3SP4S

Float JW gets off to a low heart lead, and I'm holding a reasonable hand, except the ( Read more... )

Skip=400? Sheesh. Clearly, I missed something ( Read more... )