Bridge Winners Profile for Leonard Helfgott
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 20, 2015
- Last Seen
- 4 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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- Treatments over 1NT with 5-card major
- I like the idea of other uses for Puppet at 2level that deemphasize the 5 card major angle, which I find relatively unimportant. While I do regularly open 1NT with 5CM, I would always be 5332 and almost always with some coverage in doubleton, and over 45 years this has ...
- Treatments over 1NT with 5-card major
- If partner asks and you bid 2M, then invites elsewhere, you can rebid the major with a better than average hand (an acceptance). That natural style is good enuf for me. Also, after 1NT-2H-2S-2NT- you can bid 3H with 2S and a max, a natural treatment
- What is your plan
- My omission. This occurred at MAtchpoints in Allendale, NJ, Saturday morning.
- What is your plan
- Richard: If you choose not to open 1NT I certainly agree.
- Bergen Raises Over Major And Double (BROMAD)
- From Mike Ma:”The only thing I want to be able to do is distinguish a bad raise from a good raise. The rest of Bromad I have no need for.” Yes. The idea is to bifurcate junk obstructive raises (2M) from constructive raises (2C, or you can use 2C ...
- What is your plan
- Yes. Forgot. But that seemed a stretch given the lack of diamond spots.
- 1!s or 2!c, Another Scenario
- Because even to us “sound” openers, it’s an opening bid.
- Dallas 1997 -- a grand slam of sorts
- I somewhat recall this being analyzed by the reviewer in Bridge Wotld. I think the reviewer was either Edgar Kaplan or Jeff Rubens. In 7NT I think he suggested cashing AK diamonds AND spade Ace, in an effort to reach a Double Squeeze or Guard Squeeze ending which would have ...
- 10 card Solid or almost solid suits.
- I think I may have had a 10 card suit once, but don’t recall specifics. However back in 1974 in Queens, NY I held a VERY SOUND perfecto RED VS WHITE 5C Opener: void, void, JT9x KQJT9xxxx. No defense, pure preempt, 9 tricks in hand.
- ATB - Failure to take control or Failure to bid his hand.
- “More East's dault: [sic] he failed to bid his hand on not bidding 5♥.” This would be perfect, and include the above option, if the word “on” was replaced with “or”. What was East waiting for after hearing max, 4 trumps, and 2 cues.? Give up on 7 already ...
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