Bridge Winners Profile for Max Schireson
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Dec. 8, 2014
- Last Seen
- 5 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Trying hard to learn to play bridge well. Stubbornly believe that is possible despite learning in my 40's.
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- The first 105 boards of the 2018 USBC round of 16, where we played ROSENTHAL to a draw.
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Won 9 of 17 matches to finish 10th in the 2018 USBC RR. Made it to the Blue Ribbons finals and didn't get obliterated there (55th out of 78). Won 2017 GNT-C Nationals..
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Debbie Rosenberg, Cadir Lee, Lynn Shannon, Sarah Youngquist
- ACBL Ranking
- Life Master
| Olivia / Miranda JUSBC |
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| Max and Lynn 2/1 (major suit rebid usually 6), Walsh style |
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- 1NT or 1S??
- Richard, I think the issue is how extreme they need to be. In a club game I would play the field contract if deviating is 52/48 to improve/worsen things, but play the superior contract when it is 60/40 to improve/worsen things, but that's me. I ...
- 1NT or 1S??
- Thanks Craig, I am glad the extra work yielded something of value. Fwiw, even if I found the SIM result here reassuring, I still have some skepticism about double dummy analysis for upgrades and downgrades. Why? For one example, I suspect that hands with small doubletons do worse in 3NT ...
- 1NT or 1S??
- Craig, Clearly having a 5 card suit is a lot better than not having one. Did you check hand 1 vs your average 18 balanced (might or might not have a 5 card suit)? My intuition says it's about equal, which to me made it a clear upgrade.
- 1NT or 1S??
- @Kevin I hesitated for a moment for exactly that reason before choosing 1S for hand 1 in the poll, deciding even if I was departing from the field the hand was just too good. Fwiw I checked and at our club in Mtn View 12 of 18 tables played in ...
- San Diego NABC Appeals Casebook with commentary available online
- Thanks. Seems clear now. I had noticed the problem when the DA is wrong but missed the spade.
- San Diego NABC Appeals Casebook with commentary available online
- N4 it seems like declarer is always going to play the HT trick 4 (restricted choice). Given that I don't see how a BIT could contribute to declarer getting wrong what he was always going to get wrong, and I don't understand the original director call, the original ...
- Bridge= Math?
- I'm not good at memorozing but good at remembering logical things. I find most bidding systems logical, and the few standard things that I think are backwards are memorable for that reason (and not bad enough for me to bother talking to partners about reversing). In cardplay I find ...
- Bridge= Math?
- I am not at all an early waker, but I have a 9 hour head start in Europe!
- Bridge= Math?
- Steve I agree with you about math. I regard math and bridge as both bring fun puzzle solving and sometimes take old Putnam problem books on flights to entertain myself - though last flight was Adventures in Cardplay. That said, I think that the most likely age for kids to take ...
- Please, One More Time for this Theme
- Of five directors I know in local games: (ACBL /just south of San Francisco) Two I am completely positive would roll this back, if they didn't I would eat my shoe. One I would be quite surprised if not, but I guess its possible. Two I would like to ...
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