6 board express individuals
#1
Posted 2014-August-26, 05:14
Would players please take 2 min to look at the cc.
#2
Posted 2014-August-26, 09:42
Bridge is a partnership game. If you want to play with a partner who understands your bidding, form a real partnership, don't play in an individual. Individuals are total crapshoots.
#3
Posted 2014-August-27, 04:35
#4
Posted 2014-August-27, 09:48
bartonfinc, on 2014-August-27, 04:35, said:
Self-assigned ratings mean almost nothing. Practically everyone except true beginners call themselves experts or advanced on BBO, this is an old complaint.
One thing I don't think people appreciate when playing in games like this is just how many different people you play with over time. There's currently a thread on rec.games.bridge about some random occurrence that happened to the poster on BBO, suggesting that these kinds of things are unique to online bridge. What's actually unique to online bridge is that you play with so many more people than you would IRL. So there's just much more opportunity to run into misunderstandings. They also don't generally take online bridge as seriously as f2f -- they're not concentrating as much, so mistakes are more likely.
#5
Posted 2014-August-27, 10:04
#6
Posted 2014-August-27, 11:08
Certainly it explains all the 3-1 fits they end up in, or (1NT)-2♣ all pass, or (1NT)-2♦-2♠-AP with 3-6 in the pointeds...
One other thing about offline bridge - I can sit down, tell someone I've never played with "Calgary standard flight A, standard carding?" and get 90% of the auctions right. Other places, similarly. However "Comfy Lounge Standard", or "Ontario 2/1", or even "Calgary standard flight C" is different enough to throw. But they all think "this is the way to play bridge" - why would they need to look? Online, of course, they run into people whose standard is another way - and do the wrong thing. They, of course, do the wrong thing (given the way "everyone" around their wrong partner plays) as well.
#7
Posted 2014-August-27, 19:41
Many folks don't know what they're doing, but I don't find the population on these tourneys any worse than the random BBO partner. The good thing is that you're done with a bad partner after one board. In a regular table, you feel bad for running on someone after one board. If I've got 30-45 minutes for bridge, I don't really want to spend 15 minutes hunting around for a decent partner. If I'm going to accept having bad partners, I might as well play an individual without the expectation of playing with someone for more than a board.
Also, in a 6 board individual with a large field and barometer scoring, even the good players are going to do some strange things because everyone is swinging a lot. Realistically, you're not going to place highly without 3-4 tops or near-tops, and the best way to get them is to do something slightly stupid in the hopes that either the cards lie right or the opponents do something even stupider. A string of average-pluses like one would normally aim for at a real MPs tournament will land you about a third of the way down the field.
#8
Posted 2014-August-28, 07:40
#9
Posted 2014-August-29, 04:33
#10
Posted 2014-August-29, 09:16
bartonfinc, on 2014-August-29, 04:33, said:
That's basically the same issue that was raised a few days ago in this thread:
http://www.bridgebas...52-individuals/
#11
Posted 2014-August-29, 13:55
#13
Posted 2014-September-04, 04:09
In 1 6 board match tonight 1s-3s-4s on my 18 count pard has 13 missed slam. 1s- 2h-2s all pass making 5. I play in these things specifically so there might be a little clue as to what pard is doing (unlike an individual I played at a regional that was the worst experience of my life). Guess it's hopeless and time to give up.
#15
Posted 2014-September-04, 10:23
bartonfinc, on 2014-September-04, 04:09, said:
Looks like the pot is calling the kettle black. The system in express tourneys is GIB 2/1, where 1 major - 3 major is a limit raise. You're thinking of BBO Advanced, which includes Bergen Raises.
#16
Posted 2014-September-05, 03:44