Bridge Winners Profile for John Miller
Basic Information
- Member Since
- May 16, 2011
- Last Seen
- Sept. 23
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
I have been living in Discovery Bay, California for a couple of years now. My wife learned to play during her nights off when our oldest son was a newborn. He is now 16 and both he and his younger sister have learned to play. They play at all of the youth nationals and I hope the family plays in a Swiss someday.
When not working or playing bridge, I like to play the piano and be on my skis - jet in the summer and snow in the winter. Last spring I got to be in the pit band for Cats, with my daughter playing Grizabella, and this spring I look forward to being in the pit band for South Pacific.
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Bridge Accomplishments
- 7th in 2013 Roth Swiss, won 2015 GNT-A, 2012 District 6 GNT double (Open and A), 2011 Machlin Pairs, 2nd in a club game with my daughter when she was 11, won 1998 Devon Duplicate
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Stephen Drodge, Lynn Shannon, Cris Barrere, Robbie Hopkins
- BBO Username
- prospero1
- ACBL Ranking
- Diamond Life Master
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- Double Room at Sheraton Memphis
- Why don't you just cancel the room?
- A hand of yore
- Well, yes, but you are at least somewhat likely to go down anyway. They lead a diamond back on the heart lead, now you can ruff one and hope they are 7=2 with the spade Ace with the short diamonds. I guess 8=1 works as well as long ...
- Double after partner's pass
- In addition to the ones for which I voted, I would certainly double 5) if NV, and would often double 8) if NV. In both cases frequency of doubling would be IMPs < Matchpoints < BAM.
- Number 73 buses
- Were the New York subways run by a private company, no doubt they would do something similar to maximize customer service efficiency. Given that they are run by a governmental agency, we are happy when the trains do not collide with one another.
- Yellow Systems - A Dire Discovery
- I'm confident the ability to rip the cards in a symmetrical fashion is an ability no human has. OTOH, I get a quite delicious mental image from the idea of frightening the opponents by ripping the cards. For some reason Jack Nicholson seems to be part of that mirage.
- Score Adjustment
- "Better to double with exactly four spades and bid 2♠ with five." I have partners who like this and man, do I hate it. The value of this distinction at this stage of the auction is minimal. I know the opening bid in this case was 1♥, but ...
- Score Adjustment
- I think N/S should get -450, and E/W -470. East's failure to double 1♠, even if he thought it natural, and the subsequent leave-in of a two-level takeout double overwhelm the failure to alert at the table. I'm unsure if my judgment is consistent with ...
- Yellow Systems - A Dire Discovery
- To the extent the regulations are written in English, it seems appropriate to use the proper words.
- Yellow Systems - A Dire Discovery
- "By partnership agreement an opening bid at the one level shows either three cards or more, or two cards or less in a specified suit" Until the rules of bridge allow ripping cards into pieces before playing them, the language should say "two cards or fewer."
- Number 73 buses
- On the behavior (or, I suppose since it is in London, behaviour) of the buses ... it is a well-known instability actually called the bus instability. Say you have two buses on the same route that are spaced fifteen minutes apart. At one stop there are a lot of people getting ...
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