Bridge Winners Profile for Mike Richey
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 5, 2013
- Last Seen
- Dec. 7
- 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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- 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.
- Rajendra Sirohia's bidding problem: T KQ9842 86 A432
- My point is that this is really a 7-loser hand, counting 3 club losers.
- Rajendra Sirohia's bidding problem: T KQ9842 86 A432
- You call this a 6-loser hand, but that 4th club is only a trick if it sets up as a long card or if dummy can ruff it. Losing-trick count works better when there's a known fit because you can expect that 4th club to be ruffed in the ...
- Rohit Gupta's bidding problem: A642 7 AKQT9654 ---
- I considered various cue bids along the way, but opposite my partner's favorable preempt making 6 isn't a sure thing, so I'll give up on 7 while making it hard for them to know which suit to lead.
- Dick Vatter's bidding problem: 6432 A94 A8 AQJ4
- For play opposite a hand w/6+♥ this is a great hand, as Steve says. IMPs vs. matchpoints doesn't affect whether to pass because partner knew this when he invited.
- Rajendra Sirohia's bidding problem: T KQ9842 86 A432
- We're vul, so opening 2♥ is clear. We have a max, but it's OK to have a max sometimes. NV is worth a discussion.
- What do you call ♠AQJ764 ♥8 ♦AQT432 ♣- ?
- "Almost always" seems too strong a statement if the opening lead is a ♥. You're right that 4♠ has good play, but it's the combination of good ♥ and the ability to ruff ♦, especially with the ♠T.
- Lauritz Streck's bidding problem: K73 KJT95 AJ93 K
- Partner didn't cue bid on the way to 4♥, so partner may be preempting. My hand is pretty much what partner will expect except for the trump trick, so let partner decide what to do.
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