Bridge Winners Profile for Andy Caranicas
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 31, 2011
- Last Seen
- April 1
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
I live in Minnesota and play when I can, with the demands of a full time job and family allowing.
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Winning GNT B or being in the elevator with Bill Gates and not realizing it until my friend pointed him out
- Bridge Accomplishments
- GNT flight B Champion - 0-1500 Spingold Champion
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Richard Lawson, Eric Hendrickson, Paul Gutterman
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- MGSC
- Favorite Tournaments
- Any NABC
- BBO Username
- Greek A
- ACBL Ranking
- Silver Life Master
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- What does 4!C mean?
- Board 15 from the common game Friday 1/31: https://www.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bwon/bw.cgi?pid=display_hands&msec=1&sessid=443188417534161&event=20200131_1&wd=1&across=2&print=0&club=mgsc
- What does 4!C mean?
- When this hand came up, I was the 3♥ bidder favorable at MP holding: ♠ xx ♥ QJ1098xx ♦ xx ♣ xx. Responder had a balanced 15-count and they played in 6NT making 7. I'm just wondering if there's an intelligent way to bid 7.
- What does 4!C mean?
- The idea is to poll for the undiscussed but if you have some great system to handle this then please share. The 3♥ bid is really obstructive.
- Rich Newell's bidding problem: --- AKQ9765 5 AKQ82
- With only 18 HCP and no spades this makes a lot of sense. Someone will bid something.
- Jonathan Cohn's bidding problem: KQ98 --- AKQ85 KQ74
- I think 4♣ as natural GF and 5♣ as Gerber are considered 'standard'.
- Andy Caranicas's bidding problem: KJT5 KT62 K AJ95
- I'm surprised there aren't more votes for 1NT here. It does overstate the hand a bit, but knowing partner had diamonds 3NT looks like the most likely game, if there is one.
- Critique This Bidding
- I think jumping to 5♠ is obviously not ideal, but West should bid 6♠ or better 6NT with the ♥ control in my opinion. I'm not sure what else 5♠ could be asking for.
- Richard Lawson's bidding problem: T98764 K4 A4 A64
- Just to clarify our teammates also would have doubled but the auction was a bit different and it got played from the other side where it cannot be beat.
- Peg Kaplan's bidding problem: Txxxx --- 9xxxx xxx
- Were you present when this was shuffled and dealt? It looks so much like a fixed hand.
- Is there a city more active in bridge, right now, from Athens, Greece?
- I will be in Athens soon. I may be looking for a game on July 1 but I have family obligations as well. Any suggestion on a club with a high quality game near Kolonaki?
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