Bridge Winners Profile for Oren Kriegel
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 7, 2010
- Last Seen
- 13 minutes ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
25. UChicago Class of 2016.
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Making the semifinals of the Vanderbilt
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Top-10 finishes in the Platinum Pairs and Reisinger and semifinals of the Vanderbilt and Open Trials
- Regular Bridge Partners
- David Grainger, Greg Hinze, Barbara Kasle, Gaylor Kasle, Zachary Madden, Ron Smith
- Favorite Conventions
- Mixed Raises
- BBO Username
- kriegel
- ACBL Ranking
- Diamond Life Master
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- Missed Game
- How do you propose reaching 3NT? I don't see a realistic single-dummy auction given the stipulated methods, and my personal methods would likely do no better. Yes, it's irritating not to get to the best game (or the best contract generally), but I wouldn't lose sleep over ...
- Missed Game
- The point is not that bidding a 25% game will be a long-run imp loser and may occasionally lose large sums if you get doubled. The point is that when minor changes (adding a spot card, tumbling the order of side suits) result in a good or even highly desirable ...
- Responding 2!c with exactly 4!s +4!c GF?
- They're here on BW somewhere. Michael comments a lot more than Bobby, so I didn't bother to look through his comment history to find it, but someone so inclined could do so.
- Missed Game
- If this is a "dreadful" game for your partnership, you aren't bidding enough.
- Responding 2!c with exactly 4!s +4!c GF?
- See: http://bridgewinners.com/article/view/no-matchpoints-2-navrs5zq8g/?cj=902066#c902066 Basically, the better the hand, the more likely you should be to bid 2♣. But that doesn't mean you should bid 2♣ anytime you might miss a slam in clubs if you don't.
- Responding 2!c with exactly 4!s +4!c GF?
- As Mike Ma notes above, these auctions are quite different. Over 1♦, "always" respond 1♠. 1♦-2♣ is a notoriously difficult constructive auction, and you should strain to avoid it when possible. With 4-4 in spades and clubs, respond 1♠, no matter the strength. With 4 ...
- Daniel Sonner's bidding problem: AKQ9 KT32 6 AQ52
- My reasoning for passing is that it seems likely partner has some diamond length and relative spade shortness. He will be hard-pressed to pass if spades are, say, 5-4-2-2 around the table and may remove to 1NT. Then I'll be guessing about how much to bid and we may ...
- Morgan Johnstone's bidding problem: K865 5 A2 KQJ853
- Right, Eugene. I'm in the "small set of forcing passes" camp, and if East were an unpassed hand, I would not consider this a forcing pass. However, I think that when they pass, the other player preempts, and then they bid to the five-level, our pass is forcing. (When ...
- Sarah Youngquist's bidding problem: A8xx Jxx Ax QJxx
- It's also about what suit you open with 4-4 in the minors. If 1♣ might be based on 2=3=4=4, you might have them absolutely demolished.
- Harrison Luba's bidding problem: AKQ8xx --- xx KJT7x
- 6♣ without confidence (could be the wrong strain or wrong level in either direction), but under the conditions I don't think I can do better. In favor of the blast is that East may have to guess a lead, and he might not have any reason to lead ...
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