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- Member Since
- Sept. 17, 2010
- Last Seen
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- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
- Consulting Actuary; married for some 35 years to Helen Raleigh; 3 daughters (all bridge players), Carla Heitzman, Emma O'Connor, and Willow Star Squires (some may remember her as Betsy Delia); 4 grandsons: Isaac, Raleigh, Noah, and Robert.
- Website
- http://bridgewinners.com/
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Too many to choose
- Bridge Accomplishments
- 100+ Sectional and Regional wins; 2 seconds, 5 other top 10s in national events
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Helen Raleigh, Jonathan Weinstein, Alex Allen, Allan Stauber, Alex Perlin
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Belonged to the original Cavendish in NYC
- Favorite Tournaments
- Nationals in Wash DC, New Orleans
- Favorite Conventions
- Superstrong Raises (you can read about them in the Bridge World)
- BBO Username
- bobh1
- ACBL Ranking
- Emerald Life Master
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- Geeske Joel's bidding problem: A3 K96 AQT8652 9
- 5N is choice of slams but suggests that the ♣ control is Kx, not a singleton. 6♦ is also choice of slams but the choice is between 6♦ and 6♠. Therefore 6♦ suggests a singleton ♣; 5N adds 6N to the menu of slam choices. It ...
- Polly Siegel's bidding problem: AKT8 JT985 --- KQJ7
- Once I realized we were playing 2/1, I changed my vote from 4♥ to redouble.
- Meaning of x?
- Is it imps or mps? And please tell me what my hand is. Absent that information, I'm presuming this is takeout. At imps, it would be crazy for partner, a passed hand, to double for penalties. At mps, it would be unusual, but perhaps not crazy. As for a ...
- Hendrik Sharples's bidding problem: AK842 AKQT92 --- K6
- A unanimous panel! FWIW, I play that 4♦ shows a very powerful hand with ♠s and ♣s, the one 2-suiter that we have no bid for.
- Terry Beckman's bidding problem: AQ85 QT763 763 T
- Another genius-at-work situation.
- Dean Pokorny's bidding problem: KJ4 Q9652 T8 972
- No one seems to know what they play here. I play that 2♠ is a relay to 2N, possibly with a strong ♥ raise. If I played that 2♠ was a natural jump shift rebid, I'd play that 2N is the "noise"--the only bid I can ...
- Martin Gordon's bidding problem: K7 T842 QJT32 K7
- Although the ♠ K is a nice card that I haven't shown, I have pretty much conveyed the general character of my hand--♥ support with some goodies on the side that might or might not be useful for slam. I would rather have the A of ♣s than ...
- Paul Cronin's bidding problem: J54 --- 73 AQJT9764
- I don't play flannery myself but if I did I think I would prefer to play 3♣ as forcing.
- Chuck Messinger's bidding problem: QJ9632 2 QJ A643
- 1♠ is not a bad enough bid for me to abstain but it wasn't the right call--2♠ was. At this point, bidding 2♠ would imply a much better hand than I have. Passing 1N would be very strange with all this shape, so I guess I ...
- Splitting honors
- I don't have any agreement on this altho one probably should. Nor have I given it a lot of thought. John's agreement seems like a reasonable one, so that's what I'll play until someone tells me a better way.
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