Bridge Winners Profile for Leonard Helfgott
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- Member Since
- Aug. 20, 2015
- Last Seen
- an hour 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, Marty Singer, Alex Salpeter, Ed Landau
- ACBL Ranking
- Sapphire Life Master
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- Leonard Helfgott's bidding problem: J84 AT932 A64 T7
- I'm interested in the thoughts behind the 1H call, as opposed to 2H or the "book" Pass. Is it considered more preemptive than 2H, or planning to pass any response, or 2 aces so no preempt, or other?
- David Cole's bidding problem: --- AJ875 KQJT AQ74
- Partnership agreement. The convention card has a spot for this and I usually put TO doubles thru 4H. If 4SX is for TO then agree on card, otherwise 4NT TO as 2 or 3 places to play.
- Caplan upsets Strul - a tale from an underdog.
- Love it! I hate bullies.
- Weak Jump Shift or Splinter?
- The standard (that is, in black) treatment on the convention card is WJS in competition but not in uncompetitive auctions. So "standard" would be weak, which I can play, although I would prefer to not make the bid at all without discussion. In uncompetitive auctions I always play Strong JS ...
- Weaks Twos: Short strokes?
- Steve: I've seen many hands where the least lie might be to treat QJx as a King, otherwise the value of the hand isn't expressed, e.g. with AJ9xxx xx Qx QJx (to me a 2-bid), to simply rebid 3S after 2NT might miss too many games, so ...
- Rebid Problem?
- You're welcome!
- DOPI/DEPO/DOPE
- Isn't DOP1 (Double zero, Pass 1) the same as DEPO?
- Plan your play 18.
- Since you were presumably always going to finesse West for 3-1 trumps, Ruffing high only loses to stiff queen on right, while ruffing low loses to other cases. If spades are 2-7 or East has Qx hearts it doesn't matter. A very beautiful ending, requiring perfect timing. Before my ...
- Rebid Problem with good hand
- Not sure I get your point. If you think this hand falls into 1NT range, or that a 1NTunderbid is the smallest lie, then add a jack or a couple of tens, or anything else that puts it between a 1NT and 2NT strength ( but presumably too light for an ...
- Rebid Problem?
- Ed: Thanks. You are very kind.
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