Bridge Winners Profile for Mike Richey
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 5, 2013
- Last Seen
- Aug. 14
- 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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- James Tyner's bidding problem: QJ4 A2 KJ752 964
- I abstained - must bid 3♠ over the double.
- Experimenting with weak NT
- A few months ago there was an extensive discussion of run-out methods after 1NT weak doubled. There were many opinions. I agree with Watson, above, that pass forces redouble gives the opponents too much leeway. I play DONT from both sides. If responder has a good hand or a bad ...
- Ron Zucker's bidding problem: 9542 872 A A8753
- With only 4♠ and lacking secondary values in my suits (!), I prefer double to 1N. Pass seems just wrong NV at matchpoints.
- How should this hand be bid/ATB
- I agree. I like 3♠, a stall. Then after 4♦, I like 4N. I think your partner (with whom I play occasionally too) would have passed. I was sitting East. At my table opener started with 2♣ and they stopped in 3N.
- Desambiguating a weak no trump situation
- Playing 11+ to 14 NTs, I raise 1M to 2M on most balanced 16-counts, but bid 3 on most balanced 17-counts. As was said above, the minimum hand for a 2M rebid is higher here than for strong 1N openers because the balanced minimum is excluded. One of my partners ...
- Ed Spear's bidding problem: AQ9xx x Kxx J98x
- Yeah, I'd prefer to be 5143, but if I can't double with a sound hand and ♥ shortness, then I shouldn't play support doubles. With KQxx of ♣ as part of my 10-count, then I should bid 3♣.
- Leo Lasota's bidding problem: 7 QJT65 AT5 KQT5
- I have 6 losers. Partner has 8 losers. That's making 4♥ if partner doesn't have secondary values in spades. I picked pass, but the heart and club tens almost convinced me to bid 4♥ - even the diamond ten could be of value.
- Follow ups to partner's 3NT overcall of their pre-empt
- I didn't vote because I think it matters a lot whether 3N is a jump. My regular partners have convinced me to play system on, but I believe that only would apply for a non-jump 3N. A jump 3N should be tricks rather than a balanced hand (which could ...
- Leo Lasota's bidding problem: AT8 74 A843 AJ83
- At the table I wouldn't be confident that my bidding 4♦ would force partner to use kickback, but it makes sense - I definitely want partner to ask because I have controls but no trick source! If I bid 3♠ (which was my poll answer), partner might not ...
- Should Michaels require an alert?
- Noble Shore suggested that after our 1♦ (Precision, could be short, for my partner and me 0+) - 2♦ by overcaller, that we never ask what 2♦ means and we have the following agreement. -X: cards -2M: natural, forcing -2N: pick a minor -3m: natural, non-forcing
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