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#1 User is offline   gwnn 

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Posted 2010-July-01, 19:33

What's the craziest convention you've ever played in offline bridge? Midnight teams also count.
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Posted 2010-July-01, 19:39

Opening 4♣ is Gerber. Partner was playing in his first-ever duplicate, and I didn't get around to telling him this would be alertable. On the first hand, I picked up: x, AKQJTxxxxx, x, x .
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Posted 2010-July-01, 20:00

We once played that we opened our shortest suit in a speedball.
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Posted 2010-July-01, 20:07

Inverted SEF - better major, 5-card minors, 2C and 2D are weak, 2H and 2S are strong and artificial - sure I have played something weirder, I'll post here again if I remember.

Also "bid if you've got twelve points and I'll bid 3NT" was good fun too, 50% session with the caddy who didn't know what a trick was 30 minutes beforehand
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Posted 2010-July-01, 20:44

MickyB, on Jul 1 2010, 11:07 PM, said:

Inverted SEF - better major, 5-card minors, 2C and 2D are weak, 2H and 2S are strong and artificial

Does that include 1NT=20-21 and 2NT=15-17? :rolleyes:
(I have actually thought of trying that before...)
Partner, I don't play tempo signals...
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Posted 2010-July-01, 20:53

Totti Transfer. We played Rubber (social) Bridge with this guy Totti who played the dummy horribly so he always bid a suit when he wanted to play NT or NT for his partner to guess his suit, so:

1NT*-2♥
2NT**-3♠
4♠***

* I want to play in a suit
** That's not the suit
***That's the suit!!!

 wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


 rbforster, on 2012-May-20, 21:04, said:

Besides playing for fun, most people also like to play bridge to win


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Posted 2010-July-01, 21:23

I played MUD for a while when I first started and didn't know any better.
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Posted 2010-July-01, 22:00

When I was pretty new to bridge and a friend and I were filling out a card, we agreed to play that 3S over 2NT showed 35(32) and exactly 8 HCP. Never came up.
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Posted 2010-July-02, 00:35

I don't often flat out refuse to play the pet method of a pickup partner, but I drew the line when somebody tried to insist that a change of suit over his overcall guarantees 1 or less of his suit.
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Posted 2010-July-02, 01:01

People give count in the card play.
I had just read about giving count on opening lead (1/3/5/7th leads).
We decided to give count in the bidding.

1C showed a Hand Pattern of three odd-length suits (4333, 2335, 2731 shapes etc).
All other opening bids showed one "odd-length suit" (3442, 5422, 7222, 7420 etc) with one level opening bids showing 4 or 6 or 8 cards in the bid suit, and 2 (or 4) level opening bids showing 5 or 7 cards in the bid suit.
Responder relayed with good hands to find opener's shape, and just bid naturally
(non forcing) with bad hands.

In practice, it was a very bad bidding system. We played it just once.
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Posted 2010-July-02, 01:23

Stolen bid doubles, but in my defense, I had a student who insisted.
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Posted 2010-July-02, 02:34

A complex of multi-twobids including:
2♥: weak with spades or weak with 5-5 spades/minor or strong with hearts.

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- odd encouraging
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Posted 2010-July-02, 03:13

I used to play a defence to a weak notrump called Roche, in which a 2♣ overcall also shows a weak notrump.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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Posted 2010-July-02, 04:07

gnasher, on Jul 2 2010, 09:13 PM, said:

I used to play a defence to a weak notrump called Roche, in which a 2♣ overcall also shows a weak notrump.

Sadly that method is commonly played around here
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Posted 2010-July-02, 04:13

Cascade, on Jul 2 2010, 11:07 AM, said:

gnasher, on Jul 2 2010, 09:13 PM, said:

I used to play a defence to a weak notrump called Roche, in which a 2♣ overcall also shows a weak notrump.

Sadly that method is commonly played around here

It ought to work OK if you find partner with a 6-count and a five-card suit, but I often found that there was a third weak notrump at the table, and when that happened it was always on my left.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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Posted 2010-July-02, 06:09

A long time ago, my partner (a novice) and I (also a novice) played an ACBL instant matchpoint game. I am looking at a 1255 distribution with 19 HCPs. My partner opens a 15-17 1NT. I decide to reevaluate my hand because of the length in the minors and invoke the craziest convention: G€#߀#. I hear that we have all the aces and bid 7NT.

Thus, the simple auction was:
1NT-4♣
4X-7NT

It turns out that my partner has upgraded his 14 HCP 3523 distribution with a few tens to 15 HCP and he makes 7NT.

The booklet reads: '7NT is the best contract, but absolutely impossible to bid.'

Well, yeah, if you don't play G€#߀#, that is. :D

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Posted 2010-July-02, 06:33

I could fill a book with oddball conventions that I have actually played before. I probably have at least a dozen that beat or at least tie everything already suggested. LOL
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Posted 2010-July-02, 08:00

i played that the opening lead of the ♦7 was a signal to partner that the contract, from my point of view, was unlikely to be beaten
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Posted 2010-July-02, 08:11

Also we once played that all first-round bids were suction, and we convinced our teammates to do the same at the other table. We were very successful.
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Posted 2010-July-02, 08:36

what is 4333 in suction for example?
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