[camilleln]

Hi.. I an an intermediate player who would like to practice with 2/1 players who play a plethora of conventions and UDCA. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

[skypee]

HI,
I too play 2/1. am in Tiburon, CA. Do we know each other? My real name is Mary kiriakis. Where do you play in the Bay Area?
Skypee

[P0STM0RTEM]

Hello, I play under the moniker p0stm0rtem (with zero's for o's) and have also been looking for partners that integrate a great number of conventions and new concepts into the 2/1 framework. In addition, I'm also located in the South Bay SF Area. I'm a big fan of Pattaya bridge's 'Definitive Guide to 1NT 'auctions - particularly their stayman and transfer sequence extensions (SARS, ASID, Quest). I however can't see to find anyone else willing to play them with me. More main stream are ideas within Max Hardy's 'Advanced Bridge for the 21st Century.' Normally I play Odd/Even discards, but believe that I can handle UCDA.

I'm an avid reader and here's a list of additional conventions that I haven't been able to practice enough:

- Full Reverse Bergen Major Suit Raises (including ambiguous splinters and Swiss) or Combined Bergen Raises
- 4-suit xfer super accepts
- Modified Two Way (as opposed to New Minor Forcing)
- The BART & Meckwell Adjuncts plus the Wolff Sign-off
- Walsh Diamond
- XYZ
- Good/Bad 2NT
- Lebensohl or other sohls
- Nagy/Kokish 3-way game tries
- BROMAD
- And I haven't even mentioned doubles like the reassignment of the standard Take Out doubles to Types 1-4 and the adjustment of Michaels with the 'equal level correction' 2-suited overcalls.

Please come find me if anyone is interested.
-Douglas

[Tola18]

P0STM0RTEM, on Sep 11 2009, 06:05 PM, said:

Normally I play Odd/Even discards, but believe that I can handle UCDA.

Rather OT here, but I cant sustain the remark:

I believe carding UDCA and discarding UDCA works better than carding standard and discarding standard.
Thus, I can very well understand guys playing standard wants to discard O/E and thinks it is a substantial improvement.

But UDCA throughout works just fine. There is simply no need for o/e discards.