Bridge Winners Profile for Mike Richey
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 5, 2013
- Last Seen
- 7 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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- Deb Dhar's bidding problem: A32 A872 T654 92
- 2 aces are worth more than 8 HCP, so I'm inviting game regardless of partner's reply to Stayman. Vul at IMPs I'd force to game.
- Oren Kriegel's bidding problem: AKJx Qx x AKJTxx
- Strong enough to pull partner's ♥ bid to ♣.
- Length Leads against NT
- Attitude: low lead means I like them, or at least that I want you to lead them back rather than shift.
- "Help-suit" game tries
- If 2M+1 is an ambiguous game try and responder (when not always accepting or declining) bids where his secondary values are, then opener can stop with a short-suit try in that suit and go on with a long-suit try in that suit. Information hiding of opener's hand. 1 ...
- Which version of Precision?
- At least a year ago we switched our Mecklite 1♠ response to showing 5+♥ instead of ♠ because we were tired of wrong-siding contracts and we didn't see any down side. Only this month am I seeing others doing this (including Moss-Grue in "The Bridge World".
- After 2!h double negative to 2!c
- 2♣ - 2♥ suit bid - responder can't pass opener bids new suit - responder still can't pass The club-heart switch is helpful for stopping in 3♥ or 4♣. 2♣ - 2♥ 3♣ showing ♥ - 3♥ passable 2♣ - 2♥ 3♥ showing ...
- Best defense against Big Club?
- I like psycho NV too. I add that double of 1C is 5-5 majors with game interest. After 1C-1D I prefer Mathe, forgoing CRASH so I have a natural bid in each suit.
- Are these weak 2-bids?
- Only 12 cards in first hand.
- Fleisher and Martel Lead Blue Ribbon Pairs
- Schenker & Milton (in 5th place) is a very good non-pro pair local to the Washington-DC area.
- Peg Kaplan's bidding problem: A85 AJ54 Q62 AK2
- I like 5♠ now, but did not think of it when I voted.
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