Bridge Winners Profile for Max Schireson
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Dec. 8, 2014
- Last Seen
- an hour 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. (The match was 120 boards, the last 15 were less successful).
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Won 9 of 17 matches to finish 10th in the 2018 USBC RR. 27th in 2018 Blue Ribbon pairs and a couple other national pairs overalls. Won 2017 GNT-C Nationals (is winning a limited event really a bridge accomplishment? Dunno...)
- 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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- Drop ins to the Blue Ribbons
- Michael, I agree with you that this is relatively straightforward in principle. In practice it is messy with a lot of variables. It seems from Jan’s comments that the prior seeding is empirically more predictive. I suspect that modeling would show that the preferred approach from the standpoint of ...
- Drop ins to the Blue Ribbons
- Sorry my mental math was not accurate but still there is a signifant difference less than what I said though. Lets say each team has a 50% chance of winning 6 matches to reach the finals if they don’t meet (round numbers, actual number should be 53%, assuming the ...
- Dorn Bishop's bidding problem: AKT87 J5 AT95 K9
- If partner has that, how much do so expect to collect doubling? But if partner has the clubs only (surely enough at first favorable even for a sound style) I expect to go down if I bid, but stay plus - with a decent chance of of +200 - if I just ...
- Dorn Bishop's bidding problem: AKT87 J5 AT95 K9
- This was eerie because in the pairs I opted to pass my partners reopening double of 2C with AT96 of trumps. And on of your other questions I rebid a 6 card minor rather than raising on 3, which in retrospect I think was wrong. I was having flashbacks looking ...
- Dorn Bishop's lead problem: AQJ7 7654 85 532
- Partners double of 3♣ is lead directing, I should lead the ♣3. Unfortunately as cute as that would be I lead low from 3 here, since partner won’t cater to my sense of humor when trying to work out the layout.
- Lament of the Spade Three
- Imagine that a malicious E, intent on keeping the ♠3 in his place, had instead pitched the ♣K on the diamond. Only a very wise ♣3 would truly appreciate what the ♠3 had done for him.
- Drop ins to the Blue Ribbons
- Yeah I had to play NRK on Monday in Memphis. They were good. I hoped the second match in our four way would have been easier. Then I sat down at the table against Morton Bilde. Unfortunately, that draw in my 4 way, combined with poor play by me in ...
- Drop ins to the Blue Ribbons
- Finn, It depends how you define the goals. In the end to win the event you have to win 6 or 7 matches, and towards the end that will include some of the best teams that have also won matches. I think the KO format is well suited to finding ...
- Drop ins to the Blue Ribbons
- Sathya, Personally I would be happy to have big regional events, some of them two days, that people cared about. That said I understand that people like having a proliferation of events that are more “special”, are called national championships, and pay platinum points; whatever they are called I would ...
- Drop ins to the Blue Ribbons
- I would *love* a 4 day BRP with a 14 table day 4. I also think a BAM KO would be great. FWIW one casualty of the Soloway is the Nail LM pairs as a strong event. Even though it was only two days, it had a relatively unadulterated field ...
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