Member Profile
Basic Information
- Member Since
- July 4, 2010
- Last Seen
- 12 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Pro
- about me
I'm a former professor of computer science; now I work at Google making Chrome the best web browser in the world. I'm also a part-time bridge professional.
Sometimes I build websites. I built the one you're looking at now. If you find any bugs, I'm pretty sure they're Steve's fault.
- Country
- United States
- Website
- http://www.bridgewinners.com/
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- 2dXX+1, +760. Lose 8 imps to Billy Miller.
- Bridge Accomplishments
- 3rd in Mixed Pairs in St. Louis. Otherwise I'm mostly just terrible.
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Max Aeschbacher, Adam Kaplan
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Jefferson Bridge Association
- Favorite Tournaments
- Hawaii, Bermuda, Hunt Valley, Santa Clara
- Favorite Conventions
- The Keri notrump structure
- BBO Username
- humper
- ACBL Ranking
- Gold Life Master
| Gavin [big]2/1 GF, 3/1 natural invitational (except 1M-3!d), 1M-2x-2N=waiting[/big] |
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| McKenzie 2/1 GF, 3/1 natural invitational (except 1M-3!d), 1M-2x-2N=waiting |
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| Adam Kaplan 2/1 GF, 3/1 nat. inv., 1M-2x-2M shows 5, 1M-2x-2N 6+, xfers over 1!c |
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| Greg and Max Two over one (LMH), 3/1 nat. inv except 3!d, 1M-2x-2M waiting |
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| Ankur and Greg 2 over 1 |
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- Is THIS purgatory?
- I believe it's "????? ?????????", but its been Anglicanised for our primarily English-speaking audience.
- Is THIS purgatory?
- I usually just turn to my RHO and say "I'm sorry sir, I'm afraid I'm going to have to double your contract" when I make a penalty double.
- BW defeats KAHLENBERG in Challenge Match
- This was a really fun match to play in; there were a lot of very interesting hands in the second half. What's really incredible to me about the second half of the match is that when it was all over and I saw the scoresheet, I realized that my ...
- Board 7 from the 05/11/2013 Common Game
- A wall of text about conventions: It's really important to understand that one of the biggest reasons not to bid Stayman on hands like this is that you reveal information about declarer's hand in a situation when not only do you not KNOW whether you have a fit ...
- Board 7 from the 05/11/2013 Common Game
- I don't mind skipping Stayman with the North cards. It's not just that it's 4333; you have a little bit of extra values for your game force. The fewer high card values you have, the more likely it is that you're going to need those trumps ...
- The Monroe Doctrine
- I'm not a big fan of any of the first three choices, but it seems like 1♦ got the train wreck started; typically one skips the diamond suit unless one has at least invitational values, so west might have been expecting a maximum passed hand (because East bid ...
- Jacob Vrooman's bidding problem: KQ9xx AJxx 7 AJ8
- weird that partner didn't start with a neg. double and now is bidding this way -- he probably has a hand that's not suitable to defending 2♣X, so maybe a club void and/or 5-6 in the reds?
- In the Well: Sabine Auken
- I've heard at least three very different pronunciations of your name; how do [i]you[/i] say it?
- The beer card game
- I want that.
- The beer card game
- Considering I have the ♦7 tattooed pretty big on my forearm, I'm going to have to side with Yuan on this one. I guess I can see people being put off by the beer card, but I have a hard time understanding that. I [b]certainly[/b] reject the ...
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