jlall | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 22 2007 | blogs
Quoted: I have been thinking a lot lately about auctions that start 1-(2)-X-(p). This seemingly simple auction can quickly become one of the murkiest constructive bidding sequences in bridge. The double can be made with both 4 card majors, one 4 card major, or a 1 suited hand with a major. It could even be made with 5-5 in the majors and a weakish hand. Opener
jlall | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 24 2007 | blogsQuoted: Tonight I'll be playing an exhibition match against the OzOne team on BBO. I'll be playing with David Grainger, Bart Bramley, and Jay Stiefel. A wealthy donor founded the OzOne project in order to increase the standard of the Australian teams sent for international competition. They have recruited some of the best talent in Australia to work on their
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jlall | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 23 2007 | blogsQuoted: Many people have been asking me why the documentary is no longer available at YouTube. Perhaps this excerpt from an e-mail written to me by Andy Pedersen, director of In The Cards, will clarify: I appreciate your desire to introduce the show -- and bridge -- to a wider audience, but the YouTube postings will actually limit the show's potential audience.
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jlall | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 23 2007 | blogsQuoted: Many months ago I formed a great idea for a website. It would be complete with book reviews, blog posts, articles, forums, news, link, and a lot more. Just as there was a need for quality bridge blogs when I started this blog, there is a need for more quality bridge sites now. I purchased the domain justinlall.com and began learning how to make websites.
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jlall | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 21 2007 | blogsQuoted: The blogroll was becoming a little haphazard so I decided to organize and update it. It is now broken up into three categories; bridge blogs, other bridge sites, and non-bridge sites. I ended up reading over all of them again and decided that a review was in order. Bridge Blogs DavidC's Bridge Blog- Written by an English junior player, this blog deals
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jlall | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 20 2007 | blogs
Quoted: Professionals at the top of all sports and mind games spend countless hours with coaches training to improve their games and keep their edge. For some reason this doesn't seem to hold true in bridge. Sure, the top players play a lot of hands (but not more than half of the year usually), but in general these are against weaker opponents and time is not
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jlall | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 19 2007 | blogsQuoted: A few years ago there were always cameras following my friend Gavin Wolpert around at bridge tournaments. Eventually I learned that a documentary was going to be made about he and his partner Vince Demuy. That didn't seem too exciting as I often hear about potential bridge documentaries and movies but the project always seems to fizzle out. Not this
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jlall | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 18 2007 | blogs
Quoted: I flew home two days ago after an exhausting 2 weeks of bridge. First was the San Diego regional, and from there I went to Gatlinburg. Overall I would say both of these tournaments were successes. San Diego was a beautiful place to play a regional and had the most amazing weather I've ever seen. Being a Texan I'm not accustomed to anything other than
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jlall | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 02 2007 | blogsQuoted: I'm going to be gone for 2 weeks, first in San Diego and then in Gatlinburg. In San Diego I will be playing with Grant Baze for the first time and I'm really excited about that. I've known Grant for half of my life, and he has always been extremely nice. He also happens to be one of the greatest players in the world and someone who I can learn a lot
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jlall | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 01 2007 | blogs
Quoted: Bridge and poker have a lot of similarities, but they diverge wildly in rules about tempo. In poker anything goes, you can hesitate whenever you like and try to fool your opposition, but in bridge you can never purposely mislead your opponents by hesitating. However, you can take inference from the opponent's hesitations (but never from partner's).
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