Bridge Winners Profile for Mike Richey
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 5, 2013
- Last Seen
- Sept. 30
- 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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- 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.
- ATB: Did anyone actually do anything wrong?
- I often start with bidding a suit on hands like this, planning to double the next round, especially since partner normally will pick ♥ with equal length. I was North at another table. My partner opened 2♦, which by agreement NV is a bad 6-card suit or a decent ...
- Leo Lasota's bidding problem: 9 QT86432 753 JT
- Partner knew we were fav when he bid 3♦, so I'm not going to oversave.
- Superior Defense to 2N Opener Showing both minors?
- If my hand is merely competitive, I can pass initially, then double 3m for takeout. I'm not likely to have a pure penalty double of the minor responder chooses (an alternative meaning of the delayed double), and if I do maybe partner can double for takeout.
- Prahalad Rajkumar's bidding problem: A5 AKQ984 AQ AK4
- I don't know what partner's doing. By bidding 5♠, I now have shown 9 of my 13 cards (6 trumps including top 3 plus 3 aces). If partner bids 5N asking, I can bid 6♣ to show another card. Other than the ♦Q, I've now ...
- Yuan Shen's bidding problem: K54 AT KT KQJT72
- True, but I didn't assume kickback, so my plan is to bid 4♣, then if we have all the aces 5♣, then if partner shows a K 6♣ to invite 7 with a long club suit (since I don't have sophisticated asking bids after my ...
- Martin Lindfors's bidding problem: 643 AT85 AT863 3
- 2 bullets & no Ks or Qs lean toward defense.
- A thought experiment...how much would it be worth to see dummy before the lead?
- You can't draw conclusions just by looking at the % votes. Players who are competitive in national events will vote differently from merely good players.
- Modify style with vulnerability?
- I don't like methods that cause me to bid 1x-1y-2N light where the 1y response also might be light.
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