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Andrew Van Wye
Andrew Van Wye
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Member Since
Jan. 28, 2011
Last Seen
May 7
Member Type
Bridge Player
Country
United States

Bridge Information

Regular Bridge Partners
Nate Wilmes, Evan Price, Martin LaPlaca
Member of Bridge Club(s)
Diablo Valley Bridge Center
BBO Username
a_van_wye
ACBL Ranking
Bronze Life Master
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Interesting defensive problem
Nice defense Polly. A minor note, I passed Eugene's 3H bid as I had a balanced minimum for my 1C bid and no solid indication that we had a game. Martin then doubled in the balancing seat to protect me. It was at that point that I had to ...
How to play six no trump?
A lot needs to go right here. Needing at least one spade trick and having basically a pure guess there, I would win on the board and play a spade to the jack right away. The only case this loses to is the spade ace alone onside with clubs 3-3 ...
Interesting hand
It doesn't have to be too complicated. Playing SA or 2/1 the auction probably starts 1C-1S-2C. At that point, 4NT, minorwood, or kickback RKC will find out that partner has the AKQ of clubs and it should be easy to envision 13 tricks. If you play Soloway jump ...
A Strong Freak
Stephen- Fortunately or unfortunately it was the very first hand of a Swiss Team game. No help to be drawn there.
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