Bridge Winners Profile for Greg Herman
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 16, 2011
- Last Seen
- 17 minutes ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Seattleite; spent five years in Colorado for my PhD.
Recent Ex-Junior and US Junior Internationalist (2013, 2014, 2016, 2018).
Meteorologist/Atmospheric Scientist.
Machine Learning Scientist.
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- 2017 JUSBC USA2 Final, 4th Quarter
- Bridge Accomplishments
- USA2 U26 2014, 2016, 2018, 2nd U21 2013 Teams, Collegiate Champion 2013, 2nd 100-200 Mini McKenney 2012
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- University of Washington Bridge Club
- Favorite Tournaments
- NABCs
- Favorite Conventions
- Transfers, T/O Doubles
- BBO Username
- gregh2
- ACBL Ranking
- Ruby Life Master
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- USBF To Hold U31 Trials for 2020 WYBTC
- Another potentially biased poster, but I am also sympathetic to the USBF's overall funding decision. However, I do still have a few comments: 1) The trials are scheduled very soon (only 2 months!) before the championship event. This makes it certain that travel will be more expensive than if ...
- U31 junior event
- Seriously?
- Epic Finish in Seamon USA2 Final
- Condolences to the Wei team. They were fierce competitors, tough opponents, and played fantastically both in our match and throughout the event; the match could have easily gone the other way. Very empathetic to them, having been in a similar (albeit less dramatic) position in the USA2 final four years ...
- Should District 9 have resigned?
- I mention the first two because they both act to decrease the win probability by approximately a factor of two (exactly a factor of two for item (2)) which, from a decision theory perspective, can be critical for end user decision making. I put the comment about n vs. n-1 ...
- Should District 9 have resigned?
- Dave, Two comments, accepting all of your other assumptions: 1) The two-sided area within 3 standard deviations of a normal distribution is a bit over 0.997, not 0.990...the third decimal being significant when you're talking about probabilities in the tail. 2) Your probabilities correspond to two-sided ...
- Feedback for Convention Chart, Part 2
- Thanks for all your work on this- it is much appreciated. On the ACBL Mid-Chart, it is currently legal to, by partnership agreement, be permitted to open a Multi 2♦ with 5M(332) pattern and a below average strength hand. It seems that since this agreement does not show ...
- Captain's Diary, Day 0: Arrival and Opening Ceremony
- Looks like your welcome gift offered more than your typical entrée in Salsomaggiore. Good luck to you and the team!
- Faulty Claim Ruling
- Michael, I reread the claim statement provided by the OP again. What specifically in the wording convinces you that declarer will play ♠ first? While I agree that my conviction that declarer would play ♦ first was somewhat unfounded, it certainly doesn't seem precluded. There are 'conflicting' things, neither ...
- Faulty Claim Ruling
- Being the only person that voted -3, I must be missing something? I'm supposing based on the claim statement that declarer plays the ♥A, tests ♦, then cash ♠ from the top. Testing ♦ certainly does not require playing three rounds, and there are certainly reasons not to play ...
- PLAYOFF in Mixed USBC
- Reading the Savchenko-Katz appeal write-up raises several issues which I have previously found, and continue to find, rather troubling. First, procedural penalties (PPs) are, in my experience, applied extremely inconsistently. People frequently complain about slow play in NABC+ events, but PPs are very seldom assigned except for in “fast” events ...
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