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Basic Information
- Member Since
- June 24, 2010
- Last Seen
- 2 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Passion for the GNTs which need a makeover to bring new players to the NABCs. Do you have any ideas for improving the current grass roots events or creating new ones? Let me know what you think about starting the Open Flight of the GNTs on Day 1 of the Spingolds. The ACBL Board established the Grass Roots Fund, and a Grass Roots Fund Month in Philadelphia. The first GRF month was December 2012. The next GRF will be January 2014.
Your unit can run 2 regionally-rated sessions at your sectionals if you hold a game for the benefit of the Grass Roots Fund (Item 112-58)
- Website
- http://www.bridgewinners.com/index.php/blogs/grand-national-teams-gntnap-coordinatorforum.html
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- 23imp pickup in Vegas mini-Spingold
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Gopher Regional & MplsGrandSlam Club Bulletin editor
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- D14 GNT Coordinator; MGSC Secretary; Unit 178 Board member
- Favorite Tournaments
- any one with Web Movements and level playing fields
- Favorite Conventions
- Xfr advances/1MX, Def vs. Michaels(majors)
- BBO Username
- MikeC2
- ACBL Ranking
- Diamond Life Master
| Mike Cassel & Rich Gabriel 2 over 1 |
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| Officer's Club Mentoring Team Card 2 over 1 |
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| Mike Cassel & Barry Purrington 2 over 1 |
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| Mike Cassel & Carol Rynders 2 over 1 P456069 |
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| Mike Cassel & Carol Rynders 2 over 1 |
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| Carol Mahoney 2 over 1 |
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| Mike Cassel & Helene Bauman Forcing Club (BlackBook Responses) + 4 card majors |
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- Help me choose: what to read next?
- "The Secrets of Winning Bridge" by Jeff Rubens. The principle of in & out evaluation is indispensable and just one of many chapters.
- Why aren't you playing in the USBC?
- To me there is only one major choice, does our parent organization, ACBL, develop strategies to recruit new members to learn duplicate, and turn existing members who play infrequently, or frequently, but only at the club level into tournament players? I believe the future of viable live bridge competitions depends ...
- Mike Cassel's bidding problem: 6 AQ4 AQT865 AKJ
- i suppose "obviously" was too strong.... none of the Flight A teams in the event reached slam, but maybe they didn't appreciate that 4N was almost surely safe holding three controls including the ♦K
- Mike Cassel's bidding problem: 6 AQ4 AQT865 AKJ
- when i plugged this into KnR it came up as over 23 hcp, so I am surprised at the poll. I wonder how different it would be if control responses were employed (less likelihood of a 2D reply) or if the single suiter were other than diamonds. Partner's hand ...
- Synch Up
- absolutely, I don't think a 2♦ overcall will lose the spade suit when West couldn't overcall 1♠, but that was not my problem on this one. well, we may not know what's going on after East bids 3♥, but we will be getting to ...
- Synch Up
- thanx for your comments. the crux of my problem is whether my 2♥ cuebid fully expressed my values as a passed hand. You suggested a couple of hands I didn't really consider. My issue, as you express in #1 is that, having made a game try, isn't ...
- Synch Up
- what does East do with ♠AQx xx ♦Axxx ♣xxxx ? This is a balancing double, no? 8 losers. In our hand can East not presume a good fit with the approximate values of an opening hand sitting opposite? It seemed to me that if I was willing to play opposite any ...
- David Loeb's bidding problem: AQ8 742 AQ9 K863
- Bidding 3 of a suit to improve the strain makes no sense to me. If partner has no heart wastage my 3 minor, I chose clubs, to give room for a 3♦ call can get us to a thin game. Degree of fit leads to good thin games and ...
- Yuan Shen's bidding problem: AQT92 J AQT A542
- ♠Jx ♥xxx ♦Kxxxxx ♣Qx 6hcp and a good shot at game. 3♦ not enough
- Yordan Boychev's bidding problem: --- Axx AJTxx QJxxx
- South is WAAY too good for a fit jump imo. accelerates the auction leading to this kind of guesswork. how can partner know that you have a voidshowing AND controlrich double fit? partner is guessing that there's no slam and you'll be guessing if there might even be ...
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