Bridge Winners Profile for John Miller
Basic Information
- Member Since
- May 16, 2011
- Last Seen
- 3 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
I have recently moved from Virginia, where I grew up, to beautiful Discovery Bay, California to be closer to my investment business. My wife learned to play during her nights off when our oldest son was a newborn. He is now 14 and both he and his younger sister have learned to play. I look forward to us being ready to play as a team in a Swiss event.
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.
- 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 recent club game with my 11-year-old daughter
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Stephen Drodge
- BBO Username
- prospero1
- ACBL Ranking
- Gold Life Master
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- Off the rails again
- It is an overlooked advantage of opening 1♦ with 4=5 minors that you have a clear path to diamond slams. It also does not affect your ability to find club fits if you have appropriate agreements.
- Off the rails again
- Well, if West starts with 1♥, then the initial auction is 1♣ - 1♥ - 1♠ - 2♦ - 2♥ - 2♠, and the trump suit is established a level lower. How it proceeds from here is a matter of agreement, but a reasonable auction is 3♣ ...
- Bermuda Bowl RR9: USA1 vs USA2
- Far be it from me to criticize Meckstroth, but I don't understand the rush to bid 2♠ over Grue's balance on board 14 when he holds the master suit. I had teammates do this on a couple of occasions in Toronto and get an unnecessary level higher ...
- Lecture--"Balancing"--Tips Requested
- Before you balance, make sure you know where the spades are.
- Advice sought on ethical question
- Yu, I read the same thing, but he nowhere states that South was playing the same convention. Perhaps he was. OP can clarify.
- Advice sought on ethical question
- Max, yes, that would be a distinct situation. What was not made clear by OP was whether South thought they were playing a convention like my wife does, and North thought they were playing something else, or if South agreed on their convention, but misbid for some reason. Those require ...
- Advice sought on ethical question
- One element of this that is not obvious to me is that 3♣ is a superaccept of diamonds. My wife with some of her girlfriends play 2♠ is a signoff in one minor or the other, but have no concept of superaccept, nor is it clear to me ...
- Flipping for Winning
- I suspect the dogs were not in Toronto because of issues bringing them across the border.
- Where did you learn to play bridge?
- Kitchen table for me was my Dad's big Catholic family, but as my parents didn't play, my mom bought me a plastic Autobridge with paper inserts for different hands. Taught me to count losers at trump contracts and winners at NT. Much later I figured out I had ...
- Last board of the Spingold
- So to speak.
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