Bridge Winners Profile for Gary Ansok
Basic Information
- Member Since
- March 9, 2012
- Last Seen
- 5 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Been playing on and off for 30 years, but still working, so limited to once or twice a week at the local clubs, plus a couple of regional/NABC tournaments each year. Fairly good player (Power Rating around 56), but not an expert.
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Bridge Accomplishments
- 2nd in Mini-Spingold II (0-1500), 2014
- Favorite Tournaments
- All-Western (Santa Clara, CA); SoCal Bridge Week (Long Beach, CA)
- ACBL Ranking
- Silver Life Master
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- Never a Senior
- From the NABC Daily Bulletin for Friday, 11/29: Note, however, that the Board added a slight change to this definition at its meetings this week in San Francisco: Anyone who was previously eligible to play in a Senior event will be “grandfathered in,” i.e., they will continue to ...
- Why Abstain?
- In short, "Abstain" can be "I don't feel qualified to answer" or "I don't have a preference", but I still want to see the results. For bidding problems, an "Abstain" from me often means that I don't think I'm familiar enough with the bidding system to ...
- Andy Eastwood's bidding problem: KQT8 Q32 QJT73 5
- Having 4-card spade support has improved your hand so that it is worth a full opener. Had partner bid 1♥, I think a case could be made for passing, but I'd still make a support double (if available).
- Soliciting ideas for a spring event preceding the NAP flight B and C finals
- The Summer NABCs do seem to have most of these events -- the 0-6000 and 0-2500 Life Master Pairs, the 0-6000 and 0-2500 mini-Spingolds, and the Red Ribbon Pairs are all at the Summer. Was this deliberate, to try to concentrate these events so that one could fill one's schedule ...
- Asking out of turn
- Had one not too long ago that went like this: Me: 1NT ("15-17") LHO: 2♣ ("Alert", partner did not ask) Pard: Dbl ("Alert") RHO: "What did your partner's double mean?" Me: "That depends on what your partner's bid meant... what was 2♣?" RHO: "You can't ...
- Ron Smith's bidding problem: x AQxx AKJTx xxx
- Is this North's hand we're looking at, or West's?
- A Third Option for Regional KOs - Stratified Swiss KOs
- With the Stratified Swiss proposal, I could see a Strat B team that finished fourth in the Swiss KO being unhappy with that result -- they would rather play in the Bracket 2 KO against other Strat B teams instead of feeling like a long shot in the Bracket 1 KO ...
- Michaels Cuebid
- My partner and I distinguish between a "could be short" bid and a completely artificial bid (like a strong 1♣). Over the "could be short" bid, the opener often has that suit (just as a normal "3+" minor often has 4 or more), so we bid as we normally ...
- Gary Ansok's bidding problem: J9 T95 AJ973 K94
- I was considering bidding 2♦, but decided to pass. But I was wondering (even before I saw partner's hand) for how many people this might be a third-hand favorable weak 2. 1♦ didn't even cross my mind. One hand doesn't prove anything, of course, but ...
- Rohit Gupta's bidding problem: T9652 A6 T3 AJ94
- My original comment was written before I noticed that the hand in question was a passed hand; perhaps I should have removed it. If 1N isn't forcing (because you're a passed hand or for any other reason), then I wouldn't even consider it here.
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