Re: Whoopee!

Will in New Haven wrote:
>
> I love playing against Big Club systems. It is so much fun to make
> someone who has announced that he has a strong hand start showing his
> suits at the three-level. It was even more fun to have the system-dorks
> explain to us that they gained more options when we interfered. The
> Precision-gurus who taught them the system had taught them that mantra
> and they repeated it and repeated it and took bad board after bad
> board.

Your mileage will vary greatly depending on the skill of your
opponents.  Meckstroth and Rodwell do pretty well with interference
over their big club.

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> An open national event? Well, that is impressive. I have a hard time
> getting interested except for National events and many of the people I
> play with want to go to nationals and play in the stupid
> regionally-rated events. So I stay home. Honolulu in November is
> tempting.
>
> Will in New Haven

One of the things I enjoyed about BARGE this year was that it reminded
me of going to the Nationals... sort of a Hunter S. Thompson version of
the Nationals.  I will probably take up bridge again one day, but right
now I am enjoying poker too much.  

- Bob T.