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#21 User is offline   rogerclee 

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Posted 2013-August-01, 00:21

I'm playing the GNT right now and will be there the whole time. Feel free to say hi!
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Posted 2013-August-01, 08:05

View Postrogerclee, on 2013-August-01, 00:21, said:

I'm playing the GNT right now and will be there the whole time. Feel free to say hi!

ACBL has really relaxed their electronic device policy. :)

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Posted 2013-August-01, 22:50

I'm here playing in the Collegiates and then the World Youth Open {Pairs, Teams, BAM}.
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Posted 2013-August-02, 11:08

Look out for representatives from BBO giving out souvenirs! Please be nice to them if they approach you!
They may take some pics for BBO news too.
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Posted 2013-August-02, 11:24

Rain, will that be you? For anyone that cares :), I am there Saturday the 3rd and Sunday the 4th, and would love to meet any BBOers who want to find me and say hi.
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Posted 2013-August-02, 12:35

spil will be playing the piano for everyone's delight at the 2pm slot on both Saturday and Sunday. He is the one with the Scottish accent, striped jacket and not playing Bach. puncher will probably be nearby studying the morning's hands.
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Posted 2013-August-02, 21:41

I'm here playing with Elianna in the LM pairs, then I'll do Spingold (w/ Javabean), Wernher, Mixed BAM, National Swiss.

The 7am and noon starting time of events are a bit different!
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Posted 2013-August-03, 03:56

So what day??

Restaurants in the area have been underwhelming. I can't make a good recommendation.

I miss JLall :(
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Posted 2013-August-03, 11:02

Pard and I decided to fly back early after our team got eliminated from the GNTs.

BTW, I am one of those cell phone Luddites who doesn't even own a cell phone. It wasn't amusing to get penalized 5 VPs when a prepaid phone that I had bought for travel to Atlanta went off.

Luckily, the team mates were from our GNT team and it was a side Swiss game :ph34r:.
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Posted 2013-August-03, 11:24

Nah I'm not in Atlanta. :D
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Posted 2013-August-03, 20:32

Talked to Barry and Fred very briefly today.
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Posted 2013-August-04, 20:24

View PostPhil, on 2013-August-03, 03:56, said:

Restaurants in the area have been underwhelming. I can't make a good recommendation.

That Mexican place was pretty good: http://www.alma-atlanta.com/
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Posted 2013-August-04, 21:35

Re: food in Atlanta, it is (or has been) Restaurant week in Atlanta so I've had a couple of fixed price menu selections that were good value for money and reasonable.
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Posted 2013-August-05, 13:26

So my team won our first round Spingold match and it looks like we get team Monaco tomorrow. You are welcome to come kibbitz me getting slaughtered. Anyone want to bet on my team +180?

Any advice on bidding vs. Fantunes?
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Posted 2013-August-05, 20:38

View Postantonylee, on 2013-August-04, 20:24, said:

That Mexican place was pretty good: http://www.alma-atlanta.com/

We went there today, and it was good. Thanks!

View PostStephen Tu, on 2013-August-05, 13:26, said:

So my team won our first round Spingold match and it looks like we get team Monaco tomorrow. You are welcome to come kibbitz me getting slaughtered. Anyone want to bet on my team +180?

Any advice on bidding vs. Fantunes?

Good luck and enjoy. Don't invent anything new because of them, concentrate on your usual game.
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Posted 2013-August-05, 20:55

We had dinner tonight at Truva, 60 Andrew Young Intl Blvd, next to the venue, 4045778788 - it was good.
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Posted 2013-August-06, 02:58

View PostStephen Tu, on 2013-August-05, 13:26, said:

Any advice on bidding vs. Fantunes?

I play Fantunes now and again, and oppo have never had any difficulties bidding against it. People occasionally ask at the table for a recommended defence, and I always say there is no need for any special measures since the opening bids are so natural. You will want to be sure what your meta-agrements are against later artificial bids (eg are doubles lead-directing or suggesting a sac, or whatever?) and against transfer responses to 1♣, but these are hardly unique to Fantunes.

Good luck!
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Posted 2013-August-06, 03:36

Good luck to all the Brits playing in the round of 64 today, especially the non-professionals who I'm sure will put up a good fight against the higher seeded pro teams that they'll be facing. Sam and Stephen are playing with Chris (CSGibson) against Rosenthal. Another British team, consisting of three regular forum members, has not mentioned that they are out there so I won't identify them by name but just say we're supporting you just as much.

Good luck!
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Posted 2013-August-06, 07:07

View Postpaulg, on 2013-August-06, 03:36, said:

Good luck to all the Brits playing in the round of 64 today, especially the non-professionals who I'm sure will put up a good fight against the higher seeded pro teams that they'll be facing. Sam and Stephen are playing with Chris (CSGibson) against Rosenthal. Another British team, consisting of three regular forum members, has not mentioned that they are out there so I won't identify them by name but just say we're supporting you just as much.

Good luck!


I expect Paul means us. I haven't been hiding - I just hadn't got around to posting anything about being here.

I met quite a lot of forum members in the second and third days of the LM Pairs, so collectively BBF seem to be doing OK.
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Posted 2013-August-06, 16:24

View PostPeterGill, on 2013-August-05, 20:55, said:

We had dinner tonight at Truva, 60 Andrew Young Intl Blvd, next to the venue, 4045778788 - it was good.


We ate there, too, and quite enjoyed it.
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