Bridge Winners Profile for Leonard Helfgott
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 20, 2015
- Last Seen
- 12 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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- Bramley and Woolsey Lead LM Pairs
- Are you sure about that? 75*26=1950, producing a 975 average. You can only get a 960 average with 24 boards and an 80 top, and 24 boards seems unlikely. But it’s early this morning so my math could be off.:)
- Moss and Demuy Lead LM Pairs
- Was the second day the same top per board and average, or other?
- Bramley and Woolsey Lead LM Pairs
- So great to see a father-son team in this event, and THIS father-son team in particular.! Best of luck Michael and Kevin.
- McCabe above 2 level?
- Sounds like you guys are arguing unnecessarily. If preemptor has something like AKxxxx or KQJxxx he can of course lead that suit happily no matter what you say, but AQ, AJ and KJ or weaker holdings can be dangerous, so leading partner’s choice has value there. I personally do ...
- Leonard Helfgott's bidding problem: AJx xx QTx AKxxx
- :) In the “old days”. Weren't we taught to NOT overcall at 2 level on a 5 card suit, especially when red and especially at Imps. Of course no one is that strict anymore, and you have to balance suit quality against shape—- and strength of major fragment. So we ...
- Leonard Helfgott's bidding problem: 9 T542 8752 AT32
- Richard: 5D=very good diamonds sounds like a "picture bid" or NOT Fast Arrival application, which I fully endorse. I could not fathom bidding 3S on a singleton (as suggested by Mr. Zastera) or jumping to 5D with this hand and catching partner with the huge spade hand (missing 4S ...
- McCabe above 2 level?
- I believe that Mccabe was originally constructed for weak twos. So IN THEORY it wouldn't necessarily apply to higher levels. However, my amenable partner(s) have already included it over higher preempts at my suggestion. The "painting a roadmap" drawback suggested by Steve Moese seems nowhere near as important ...
- Leonard Helfgott's bidding problem: 9 T542 8752 AT32
- I don’t understand why 4D should show slam interest, given that 3D is game forcing. I understand 3NT with 10xxx hearts, but What if opener has a big 2-suiter, perhaps AJxxx Ax AKQTx x, and you hold x xxx Jxxx AJxxx. That’ 8 tricks at NT and 11+ in ...
- I met Ken Lebensold last night
- Ken Lebensold wrote one of the most entertaining Bridge World articles ever, "Odd Bridge" in 1975. When my unit (106) asked me for some literature for their newsletter, around 1999, I contacted Mr. Lebensold and he was kind enough to allow me to reprise his terrific piece of fiction.
- Leonard Helfgott's bidding problem: ATxxx A9xx KQx x
- Well, this problem appears to be a dud for most. I’m wondering if the voting would materially differ if the majors were reversed (4=5=3=1) or the suit qualities were vastly different, e.g. Txxxx AKJx KQx x.
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