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There will be 2 broadcasts from the israel championship final starting 15.5 hours from now and if nothing change ill be on one of them.
Hope not to be too nervous and with lots of luck we might do well even though we are a big underdog.

Sharon Guy

[han]

Good luck Sharon!

[kenberg]

I'll probably watch at least some of it. Enjoy yourself.

It's a fact that vugraph commentators make mistakes. Reasonable people accept that and enjoy and appreciate the show. The vugraph shows are an enormous contribution to bridge.

[bid_em_up]

Flame, on May 25 2007, 03:09 PM, said:

There will be 2 broadcasts from the israel championship final starting 15.5 hours from now and if nothing change ill be on one of them.
Hope not to be too nervous and with lots of luck we might do well even though we are a big underdog.

Sharon Guy

Who is going to be on it? Are teams listed anywhere?

[pclayton]

OOh; I'll sign up as a commentator and 2nd guess everything you do.

Just kidding; enjoy yourself and relax.

[jillybean]

Great, good luck
Don't forget to alert

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jillybean2, on May 25 2007, 04:24 PM, said:

Great, good luck
Don't forget to alert

We alert every bid. We play a complex system, my partner used to say that this system is easy because a bid is never natural so you cant mistake .

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bid_em_up, on May 25 2007, 03:19 PM, said:

Who is going to be on it? Are teams listed anywhere?

Ron pachman and eldad ginosar are leading the tournament and probebly the best pair in this event so they will definelty be on atleast one of the brodcasts maybe against us because we havent played them yet.

[kenberg]

It seems I misunderstood. I thought you were on the broadcast as a commentator.

Well, now that I understand, good luck.

I stand by my statement that the vugraph shows are an enormous contribution to bridge.

[fifee]

I was lucky and caught the first part of your match this morning. You played very well ! Your system was interesting with the strong club opening and the relay responses. Congratulations.

I was wondering why some of the responses had a 0-11 HCP range. That seemed too wide to be productive.

Were you using REO carding?

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I watched the VU record, some of the explanations were mistakes, for example we dont use reo the other pair did, also we didnt invent our system only a small part or it, we play the way forward 1♦ and1♠ over 1♣ we play relay from michael alberman site. we did chage few things but not too much.
The 0-11 is pretty normal in limited opening system, it doesnt mean you have to bid it with any 0 hcp, you can just pass if you want, the big benefit imo is that the opponents cant assume they dont have game as it usually happend after normal system 1X-1NT, so their difence should take that in mind. sometimes you just play 1NT when the opponenets have a game which is also nice. basically when opener has a small range of points respoder is the captain so its not that important to show his range as opposite to 2/1 based systems, especially when those 0-11 usually means we dont have a game.
I have to thank BBO for our good result in this tournament, this was our first tourny together and we practice many many hours on BBO, we wouldnt do half as good without BBO.
We were the suprise of the tournament, no one expected us to get to the final especially when we ended up in the strongest house of the semi but we did and 2 round to the end we even were on the first place, a weak ending got us to the thirds with same VP as the second place.
So thanks BBO and thanks to my partner who played like an expirence adult although he is only 21 and play bridg for a year a3 months, ofcourse he made mistakes here and there but his attitude during all the tournament was what got us far. thanks for commentating was nice to watch it.