Bridge Winners Profile for Mike Richey
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 5, 2013
- Last Seen
- 14 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Getting clobbered by Katz, Jacobs, and the Italians in the 2002 Spingold.
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Third in flight B NAP in 2010. Played in third day of LM Pairs in 2002. Beat a 21-seed and a 38-seed in half-day Spingold matches. Wrote an article published in "The Bridge World" in Feb 2006.
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Clyde Kruskal, Lloyd Rawley, Ron Zucker
- Favorite Conventions
- forcing club with transfer responses; 2D natural and weak (5-baggers OK NV); variation of Meckwell over 1NT where 2m shows 4+m with 5M and dbl shows majors or 4M with 5+m instead of m
- BBO Username
- spare3
- ACBL Ranking
- None
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- Major Suit Responses To Unbalanced 1!D
- For our unbalanced 1♦, no transfers, but we use opener's NT rebids to show additional hands. 1♦-1♥-1!n = 11-14, 3-card ♥ support 1♦-1♠-1!n = 11-14, 4♥ 1♦-1♥♠-2N = 15-17, NF, 6♦, 0-2 of responder's major 1♦-1♥♠-3 ...
- Peg Kaplan's bidding problem: AK532 QJT Q95 A9
- Even after reading all of this, I still don't understand 2♠. a) My spades are lousy for offense; KQT9x would be much better. b) My hearts are good for defense. c) My partner wasn't able to make a takeout double, nor do anything else.
- David Genne's bidding problem: AJT982 9 KQT8 KQ
- I think 3♠ shows more ♠ than 2♠, not a strong hand. Due to the spot cards and the 6th ♠, I think this is worth double followed by bidding ♠ - only because we're in balancing seat.
- Howard Engle's bidding problem: KT A62 J6 J98532
- Years ago Robinson's book explained that with 2-3 in the majors, you don't know which suit you should be in, so instead you pick based on whether you want opener to bid again on his potential 17-count. With this hand you do, so you bid 2♠. If ...
- Found out something this weekend that I did not know (and perhaps some of you may not either?)
- Brad, are you implying that when you find out something you didn't know, then that is newsworthy? :)
- Christina Syrakopoulou's bidding problem: 3 7543 T2 AT9654
- I think this is a 3 or 5 hand. Bidding 4♥ often leads to 4♠ and now your side has the last guess.
- Fred King's bidding problem: QJT987 6 A8754 5
- At this vul 2♠ is fine. Other vuls are tougher.
- Craig Biddle's bidding problem: AJ876 --- AQJ86532 ---
- Partner's a passed hand, so I'm jamming the auction with 5♦.
- Jeff Ford's bidding problem: AQ4 T6 AQ986 K42
- Bid 2♦ first, then double back in if they have a fit. NV at matchpoints I have zero problem with overcalling a decent 5-card suit at the 2 level. If the hand were weaker then this 2-step approach would be an overbid - then I'd have to pick between ...
- Leo Lasota's bidding problem: JT986432 A754 --- 3
- Pass! Give them the last guess - I already did my job.
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