Bridge Winners Profile for Leonard Helfgott
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 20, 2015
- Last Seen
- a minute 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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- 2nt better as a convention than a contract?
- I think the odds of making 3 club tricks, while below 50% for sure, may be greater than odds of 3 diamond tricks, and you may very well need at least two clubs tricks. Playing for 3 club tricks I'm pretty sure that leading the Jack is slightly better ...
- Leading low from a doubleton in trumps
- I always thought (and still do) that General opening lead agreements do not apply to the trump suit. If you have a specific agreement (other than judgment) regarding trump leads (suit preference or no) then fine, but why should a trump lead be influenced by whether you play standard carding ...
- Dilemma
- Dave: What a perfect statement. To strive intellectually (and for some physically) for what we cannot quite attain can be the greatest sense of satisfaction. “Try to learn something new every day.” is a personal mantra. Reading Bridgewinners to (hopefully and optimistically) improve is a joy in life. In these ...
- Light Opening?
- I consider myself a fairly sound opener and I WOULD open this hand only because it is unbalanced AND 4-4 majors. (In an ideal world I'd double RHOs 4th chair Diamond opener, but its not an ideal world) I would pass analogous 4=1=4=4 and 1=4 ...
- Dilemma
- What he said!
- ATB - doubled partial score made
- A VERY strong Turkish/U.S. expert/pro told me that 6-5 hands are freakish and you shouldn't pay too much attention to an occasionally unlucky board.
- Optimum Contract
- Richard: So we've solved Fermat's Last Theorem, The Four Color Map Problem and a few others in our lifetimes, any guess on whether a complete solution to ULAM's second problem will happen in our lifetimes? In theory this one is finite therefore doable with the HAL9000 (no ...
- Optimum Contract
- Thomas Andrews in his fabulous Fantasia website has a collection of these.
- 1!c-2!d: What do you play it as (in 2/1)?
- I'm not exactly sure what the team "mixed raise" has morphed into here these days, although it "sounds" like a shape based limit raise, similar to a limit raise in "crisscross" (where 1C-2C is GF or at least to 4-level). So if "mixed raise" is ~11-12 dummy points but ...
- Please bid these hands
- Khokan: But most of us (in SA) play 1C-1D-1M as not 100% forcing, requiring a JS. Although I do agree that if you need to JS, 2S is a better choice than 2H.
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