Bridge Winners Profile for Leonard Helfgott
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- Member Since
- Aug. 20, 2015
- Last Seen
- 6 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Winning a 1981 Sectional against strong LMs for Intermediate Player of the Year---back in the day!
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Burrell Humphreys, Irwin Miller, Sue Fulton, Alex Salpeter, Ed Landau, Peter Stein,
- ACBL Ranking
- Sapphire Life Master
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- Leonard Helfgott's bidding problem: 863 K742 KJ753 K
- There is an old (very old) phrase: when in doubt “support with support”. I believe it has withstood the test of time.
- Advancing Partner's 1N Overcall
- How about Smolen Showing 4S&5H then after 3NT retransfer into hearts, showing 4-6 You will always get to 6-2. Worst case is 5-3 plays better. I give up on slam.
- Leonard Helfgott's bidding problem: 863 K742 KJ753 K
- Nick: I did say IMPLIES no fit but permissible with 3 cards and defensive values. IMO this eliminates 2NT as an option (I require 4 card support anyway, but if partner did it with Hxx I wouldn’t freak out) So it seems to boil down to including this as ...
- Three card limit+ raise over 1M - (X)
- Phil, Martin (and others): So consider a borderline hand with a lot of “mixed baggage”, i.e. after 1S-X- you hold xxx Kxxx KJxxx K. Weak trumps and DANG(!) that stiff club king, difficult to value ( for mere mortals like me).Assume for the sake of argument that you are ...
- What is “Cheapest Minor” after 2!c-2!d-3!d?
- You got it. Simply restrain yourself from bidding 2C with diamonds as much as possible. The suggestio of 2C-2D-3M to show 4M&long diamonds has appeal, although I don’t play it and I doubt I could convince anyone yo try it.
- Bidding in Competitive NT auction
- Would you actually pull this on a new Partner expecting tp play a “standard” treatment?
- Bidding in Competitive NT auction
- Wasn’t aware that Western cues were “standard” nor that 3NT denied both majors and 2NT first then 3NT showed both majors. Why not double to show values first?
- Gerber: Is it Even Worth It?
- I’ve always liked the Gerber Transfer: KQJTxxx Kx Kx Jx. 1NT-4C-4S(2aces)-Pass!:)
- New suit at the 3 level by responder after two level interference - your agreements?
- Don’t you mean RHO not LHO, and if partner opens, don’t you mean “you” (or I in the first person singular), not “partner” again.? I would think new suit by responder (you if partner opened 1H) would be forcing, but not necessarily to game, i.e. both 3H ...
- Gerber: Is it Even Worth It?
- So what was 2N-4C?
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