Bridge Winners Profile for Mike Summers-Smith
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Sept. 20, 2015
- Last Seen
- 3 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
English county-class bridgeplayer; or, rather, I was, when playing often enough to stay sharp. Favourite methods (1) a home-grown strong Diamond, and (2) Acol. I firmly believe that strong NT and (especially) 2/1 are inventions of the Devil.
- Country
- United Kingdom
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Discovering, in real-life play, a one-loser smother play which seems never to have been written up. Least favorite bridge memory: going for 800 in 2Sx on that hand, rather than 1100.
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Knocked the holders out of the Gold Cup 40 years ago, and.lost in the next round. Finished in the top five a time or two in the EBU Summer Congress Swiss Pairs.
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Coventry and North Warwickshire
- Favorite Tournaments
- EBU Summer Congress Swiss Pairs
- Favorite Conventions
- Strong Diamond
- ACBL Ranking
- None
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- Over Their Weak Notrump
- Canape Astro (CASTRO): x = PEN 2♣ = 5+♥ 2♦ = 5+♠ 2♥ = 4♥5+m 2♠ = 4♠5+m 2N = either 5♦5♣ or a 5-5 monster 3m = constructive (typically 6cards 12-15) 3M = preemptive 2M canape looks weird at first sight. However: (1) start with ...
- Richard Fleet's bidding problem: T43 T83 T862 T93
- 1♥ was FG. 3♦x and 4♦x are game calls, aren't they?
- Richard Fleet's bidding problem: T43 T83 T862 T93
- Pass. Unless I can claim +150 for holding all four 10s, and possibly not even then.
- Another Reese-Schapiro Hand
- [i]Most players don't notice mannerisms.[/i] After one session, my partner at university confessed to me that halfway through he'd got so bored with the dreck he was picking up that he'd written 'Reese-Shapiro signals' on his CC, and had been playing them. Did anyone inquire ...
- Richard Fleet's bidding problem: A9532 A98 A4 A54
- 3N, and glare at LHO. It may be cold, or cold on the wrong, blind lead. All 2N does is give information away. ♠? what ♠? I might have wrapped up 9 tricks before anyone notices we've missed a 5-4 fit which might not make 10 anyway.
- Another Reese-Schapiro Hand
- You and I no longer are. I remember speaking to at least two strong players who knew R-S in their prime, and said that it was an open secret that they were 'at it'.
- Another Reese-Schapiro Hand
- I think I only played against Joe Amsbury once. Tony Sowter opened 1N, and before my opening lead I asked Joe what it showed. (They had some sort of complicated mixture of ranges which I couldn't be bothered to memorise.) "12-14" "What - always?" Joe went ballistic verging on postal ...
- Another Reese-Schapiro Hand
- 3♣ is also weird. If you read 2N as strong balanced with ♥, why pull it? They might start doubling. It only seems to make sense if you think 2N was relying on your own (non-existent) ♥ holding.
- Another Reese-Schapiro Hand
- I've seen the hand before, and always found it very peculiar all round. Why psych in a suit you know is breaking badly? I rarely psyched, but my most successful ones were in a suit which looked as if it might be breaking well (xxx was ideal). Here, the ...
- JDR Collings
- If not, I'd be happy to help. I knew John, and know my way around WP. RF may be able to locate this citation: an interview with John in IPBM in the late 1990s or thereabouts. It was extremely funny if you knew him, and was even funnier if ...
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