[pooltuna]

billw55, on Mar 5 2010, 10:42 AM, said:

pooltuna, on Mar 5 2010, 10:25 AM, said:

Your only failure was not to provide an AFI warning in the original post 

What is AFI ?

The letter I is 5 letters starting with Id hopefully your imagination can fill in the rest.

[neilkaz]

billw55, on Mar 5 2010, 09:52 AM, said:

neilkaz, on Mar 5 2010, 10:42 AM, said:

Bill..your partner was so shockingly wrong this hand. I hope your future sessions are with better partners.  LOL at his 2♥ rebid with a GF hand after you open.

It can be difficult to get a good partner in a pickup game. I would love to have a regular partner of roughly my skill for my daily lunch hour game, but that seems unlikely to happen. So I make do finding an open seat in the main room.

Also interesting that in this case partner's hand certainly rates a game force, but no game can make. I guess after a balancing double and 3♣ response, the most likely result is 5♣-2, possibly doubled.

Bill, I play in MBC very commonly and it can be difficult to find a decent pard also at times.

I suggest making good compatable ones friends. Also in the comments box you can mark more notes about what they play etc.

In this case, you were playing with a clueless loudmouthed moron and I'd have left instantly, in search of someone else. To be that far wrong with bidding and then to tell you that you aren't advanced is simply more than I'd tolerate.

Here's hoping your next lunchtime game is more fun. .. neilkaz ..

[Fluffy]

I remember the hard times at MBC, I met some interesting people, but overall it was tough to find decent ones, specially because everyone had a tendency to give me lessons O_o.

But after a couple of years I got that yellow star, things get pretty different after it. Even though there are now dozens of starts who know nothing about the game, but nobody knows :/.

[whereagles]

GOOD hand for good-BAD 2NT (pun intended )

[dealmegold]

helene_t, on Mar 5 2010, 08:56 AM, said:

Yeah, North needs to double 2♦. If he is afraid that you would take dbl as penalty, he should bid 3♥. If he is afraid you won't understand that either, he could bid 2♠. But certainly not 2♥, that shows a weak hand with six hearts.

...and if p makes the wrong bid because he's afraid you won't understand the correct one, that's his problem!

[Double !]

billw55, on Mar 5 2010, 08:47 AM, said:

.. which made when I led a heart.  My suggestion to balance with a double instead of 2♥ fell on deaf ears, and 3♥ was .. er .. entertaining.  However, he was kind enough to inform me that I am not an advanced player.  Which is probably true over the table, but on BBO ...

It gave me some good lols.

Get your partner a hearing aid (to help address partner's deaf ears) and a decent book on competitive bidding.

Unless you are playing a way to discriminate between competitive and good 3C bids, just pass.

You did fine, except for choosing this particular partner. Never doubt yourself & do what you know how to do or think is the right thing to do. If you try to do something at the table that is unfamiliar to you or doesn't seem right to you, you will go nuts and kill your own game. You can then decide whether or not to seek advice from people you believe know what they're talking about.

G.L'

DHL