Member Profile
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Dec. 27, 2011
- Last Seen
- May 13
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
I am a computer science student at the University of Texas, and I love bridge. I currently head up the bridge club here. We play bridge 3 hours a week, even during the summer break. I have a lot of outside interests as well, like every sport and outdoor activity known to man. And lots of TV and movies.
- Country
- United States
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- This auction: 2NT (3S) 4S (P) 4NT (P) 5D (P) 6NT (P) 7D. Made 7 missing a cashing ace
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Glen Perry, Brian Baresch, Dennis Kriventsov
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Bridge Center of Austin
- Favorite Tournaments
- Austin sectionals, Texas regionals, NABCs
- Favorite Conventions
- 1430 RKC, inverted minors, 4-way transfers, Jacoby 2NT, Meckwell, OGUST, Unusual over Unusual, 2-tiered splinters
- BBO Username
- rathia
- ACBL Ranking
- Non Life Master
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- 8-bagger, 8-bagger What do you do?
- I would pass, knowing the auction isn't ending at 1♦, and probably bid 5♣ at my next turn. That should confuse the rest of the table enough to make them pass it out there :-D
- Game Play Decision
- (*) More precisely, suppose RHO has ♥Qxx and ♣A. After cashing ♥AK, let's say you cash ♦AK pitching a spade, ruff a spade, and attempt to endplay RHO in hearts. This fails when RHO has a diamond exit. Alternatively, trying the diamond finesse fails when it's off, and trying ...
- Game Play Decision
- Mark's line fails when ♥Q is 3rd offside and ♣A is offside, but in that case the other lines also fail. The first line (♦AK, hook heart) fails when ♥Qx and ♣A are offside, but Mark's line succeeds. The second line (♥AK) fails when there are 3 (unavoidable ...
- Poll for Anant's Stats Class
- I plan to post the results of the study once it's finished :)
- Kevin Wilson's bidding problem: 7 --- AKT7542 AK864
- Saket - 2♦ followed by 4N should be more flexible, I think, showing less length/strength in the minors. Maybe one of these hands: ♠xx ♥- ♦AKxxxx ♣KQxxx ♠Kx ♥x ♦KQ109xx ♣KQJx
- Nick Fahrer's bidding problem: T53 T93 963 9652
- Hehe same goes in India. Most turn-based card games go counterclockwise. I've never actually tried the phantom club, but I can imagine it must be lots of fun.
- Nature of comments
- I voted some relevance, but that does not mean that the comment needs to be constructive. In my opinion, jokes (for instance) are fair game as long as they do bear some relevance to the thread.
- Jim La Force's bidding problem: 652 ATxxx --- ATxxx
- Assuming 2♣ is artificial regardless, how does it matter whether we are playing 2/1 or standard? I'm bidding 2♠, which rates to have play all the time but could be hard. 1NT might not have play, though granted, that's unlikely. Even if partner has a ...
- Dean Pokorny's bidding problem: AKQJT AQJT8 7 K5
- Give partner ♥K and the minor-suit aces and various grands are cold. I need to ask for keycards somehow, but I'm not sure 4NT will be taken that way. Do we have any methods at this stage in the auction? If not, I would just blast 6♥ and ...
- Jameson Cole's bidding problem: QT853 KJ963 KT8 ---
- Stay fixed! Or, let your opponents stay in their self-inflicted fix! :-D
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