Bridge Winners Profile for Max Schireson
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Dec. 8, 2014
- Last Seen
- Feb. 26
- 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 forcing NT |
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- ACBL - Time to add new GLM Ranks?
- I do think more national events specifically for newer players would be helpful. That said, unfortunately many of the winners of such events are new-to-the-acbl players, but not new players. I know one player on my GNT-C winning team had played fairly seriously as a junior in France. He wasn ...
- ACBL - Time to add new GLM Ranks?
- While I understand the sentiment that playing against players who are not life masters shouldn’t qualify one for being a life master, when I looked back at the D21 GNT flight C teams that won four of the last six titles, I know almost all the players well enough ...
- ACBL - Time to add new GLM Ranks?
- Ack, I misremembered because I was not yet eligible for Platinum Pairs when IMP pairs we as on Friday, and imagined that they actually had started when I thought they should have started! While my weekday schedule is more flexible than most of the under 60 crowd, I share your ...
- ACBL - Time to add new GLM Ranks?
- Peg, I agree. The biggest change recently was the Nail LM pairs. In 2018 it was a very strong field, not much different than the premier events. 2019 opposite the start of the Soloway it’s a completely different field. IMP pairs also moved from a Saturday start to Sunday ...
- ACBL - Time to add new GLM Ranks?
- IMO there are really 3 types of national events: 1. The unconflicted/premier events, where you face most of the top players: eg Vanderbilt, Spingold, Reisinger, USBC, Platinum pairs 2. Events where you face many of the top pairs, but there are significant schedule conflicts and possibly also shorter event ...
- Nadav Trumer's bidding problem: --- AQJ9763 4 AQT72
- I am with Michael here. Beside the risk of 2C being passed out, we might have slam and I want partner to get excited about KH + KC. That 6HCP makes slam good, and 10 well fitting HCP gives us an excellent grand. I like to have the goods when I ...
- An unusual alert situation
- First order I think it comes to the same, assuming opponents aren’t involved. I think the minor differences are examples of thinking far too deeply. I prefer the alert version a) because opponents might be involved (even if I think they aren’t) and b) it is more compliant ...
- An unusual alert situation
- Michael, While my odds arguing with you about this might be similar to arguing with you about a 5 card ending, I will give it one more round in hopes of learning what I am missing. Let me first clarify what I mean by Kit’s policy, since I don ...
- An unusual alert situation
- Right, I know it’s a post alert so that auction isn’t itself relevant, I just supplied it as a top of mind example of the type of potential mixup where an alert in Kit’s style would not create UI. I think the auction given in the OP ...
- Don't tug on Superman's cape
- Cool problem. Sadly, I “solved” #83 before scrolling down, then failed to pause when I read that Michael had said it was impossible so I missed the chance to “solve” that problem. Shame on me for not pausing my reading and thinking, but I think the article would be even ...
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