Bridge Winners Profile for Andy Caranicas
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 31, 2011
- Last Seen
- June 15
- 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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- Is there a city more active in bridge, right now, from Athens, Greece?
- If I come to Athens in summer 2019 as planned, can you find me a partner?
- Andy Caranicas's bidding problem: AKJ984 QJ87 53 5
- Partner's hand was something like ♠10x ♥xxx ♦AKJx ♣Q10xx. Notice if ♠Q is onside 4♠ is almost cold, whereas 3NT can will go down losing 2♥ and 3♣ on best defense. In reality, we ended up in the inferior 3NT, and the ♠Q was thankfully offside ...
- Andy Caranicas's bidding problem: K53 --- AJT987 AQ74
- At the table the winner was 5♦, buying AQxx x Kxxxx Jxx from partner and a raise to 6. Double at the other table led to 4♠. Both contracts made 7 when spades were 3-3 and opening bidder held ♣Kx.
- Muscle memory- BAD! (Wiener blues)
- I would have passed the N hand even in third chair.
- Andy Caranicas's bidding problem: A AQ74 AK8653 94
- Your suggestion makes sense. At the time, I wanted to keep 3NT in the mix, but perhaps that wasn't necessary.
- Sometimes I don’t believe the results on a board.
- Several years ago my partner was playing in 1NT and had 4 tricks available. One defender for some reason thought we were in a suit contract and defended accordingly setting up 3 tricks in dummy AND a useful entry for a finesse. +120 ought to score pretty well. It did ...
- Hard to Believe
- It looks so much like a fixed hand that NOT bidding 7H may be the favorite, since if it is a fixed hand you can be sure of a heart loser.
- Richard Lawson's bidding problem: QJ98654 K7 T8 Q7
- I was at the table and 4NT shows minors.
- Rohit Gupta's bidding problem: AQ9876432 3 K2 6
- Partner might have a ♥ stopper. Pass and lead the ♥. There are not a lot of layouts consistent with the bidding where the ♥ lead will cost. If they can take 4 ♣ and 7 ♥ and the D!A then they get 1440 I guess.
- Yuan Shen's bidding problem: J32 K3 AK42 AJT5
- Pass. If partner has anything +200 stands to be a pretty good result.
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