Bridge Winners Profile for Drew Becker
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Oct. 8, 2010
- Last Seen
- 35 minutes ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Howard Liu
- Favorite Tournaments
- US Nationals
- Favorite Conventions
- short club, flannery
- BBO Username
- drewb
- ACBL Ranking
- Gold Life Master
| becker/dong 2/1 |
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| Drew/Premek Chaos 5 cd majors, weak notrump |
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| Becker/Weinstein 2/1 |
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| Becker/Schuett 2/1 |
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- Billy Rosen (1928-2019)
- I was lucky to get to know and play bridge with Billy through the weekly home game that he played at in the Chicago suburbs. I knew every time I drew him that I was getting a chance to play with a legend. He didn't carry himself that way ...
- PEPSI Wins Jacoby Swiss
- Congrats!
- Grand National Slams, II
- Holding all the first round controls I think that I ought to have just taken a shot at 6 hearts on the last hand (I had the big hand). Partner rates to have a couple of cards and often 5 hearts on the auction and that seems like enough for ...
- What is needed for opener of a limited bid to make a game forcing splinter raise?
- Void splinters is probably a decent agreement too. You also have 2nt and 2s after 1d-1h that you can assign a meaning to--maybe a raise with a singleton somewhere?
- RIP Bill Wickham
- Sadly, Bill just moved back to the Chicago area and began enjoying retirement a couple of years ago. I'm heading out now to the home game in the suburbs that he liked to play at. We'll pour one out for you bud.
- Negative Doubles Over NT - Questions
- For your question #5, opener can also bid 2nt natural in response to the shmack because the dbl shows values. good luck!
- Flat Hand Double
- check out this article: http://bridgewinners.com/article/view/off-shape-takeout-doubles/
- Terry Adamik's bidding problem: KQJ A98763 A Q76
- I'd definitely just overcall 1 heart--your hand is more than strong enough to reopen with a double if they raise diamonds, which seems like the most likely scenario.
- Frank Lin's bidding problem: T652 AQ4 K83 A43
- I never lie as opener because responder knows way more about my hand than I do about theirs. Responder gets much more leeway and can use judgement about whether to look for a major suit fit.
- Mike Wolf's bidding problem: AK964 JT AQJ3 92
- I'm passing pretty comfortably--I like the agreement in these situations is that the default bid is opener's major with 2 (instead of bidding a new suit with 4). With this agreement partner is fairly likely to have 5 hearts and if not will have spade shortness.
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