Bridge Winners Profile for Phil Markey
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- Member Since
- June 3, 2015
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- 7 hours ago
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- Bridge Player
- about me
Lawyer, gambler, monogamist, wolfhound lover
Personal philosophy - clothing optional
- Country
- Australia
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- Bridge Accomplishments
- winning
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Bruce
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- South Australian Bridge Association
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- National Open Teams
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- specific 2's
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- stiff queen
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- Question for the weak no trumpers
- We should probably stop and simply agree that there is marginal value for an invitational bid over a 1NT opening and that having a 5 card suit is clutch, but I hate to go last. Every descriptive bid has a higher transaction cost than pass. I agree that David Burn ...
- Question for the weak no trumpers
- I disagree Benoit. Plenty of times defending 2NT or 3NT I have found the defence easier because I knew declarer was minimum or maximum. Moreover plenty of times I have seen the speculative double employed with good effect because the defence knew that game had been bid on marginal values ...
- Question for the weak no trumpers
- "Why should an invitation be bad practice?" Inviting with a good 13 or a fair 14 opposite an average balanced 10/11 will sometimes result in a minus score in a part score contract. When you invite with a good 13 or a fair 14 opposite a good balanced 11 ...
- Question for the weak no trumpers
- I play 9-14 in 1st and 2nd. The invitational bids over this range when not vulnerable have almost no equity. If you play a significantly smaller range then you are long term losing every time you invite not vulnerable. If you are going to have invitational bids in these marginal ...
- The "New NT" (a.k.a., the Self-Rescuing Kamakazi NT)
- I think the rationale for this opening 1NT is flawed. It would be right to say that when the weak 1NT goes for a number it is more keenly remembered by a purist but it is wrong to say that the major downside of the weak 1NT opening is going ...
- What is the best Grosvenor Gambit you've seen?
- Playing with Andrew Mill a long time ago he produced a variation of the gambit which I would call the Grosvenor Sacrifice. Declarer was in 7 spades holding Axxxx trump in hand opposite Q10xxx in dummy. Milly sitting over dummy held KJx of trumps. After winning the opening lead in ...
- 1NT - (P) - P - (X)
- "I know that SW1NE is inferior in that it does not allow 1NT doubled" I think SW1NE is a crappy method but I also think that taking away 1NT doubled as a possible spot to play is an advantage to the openers side. The other myth that is common in ...
- Mike Doecke's bidding problem: 75 AK6 AKQJT852 ---
- 1S P 4S P P 5D I estimate the chance that a savy opener or responder double 5D on this auction is close to 0%. 1S 5D I estimate the chance that a savy opener or responder double 5D on this auction is not close to 0%.
- Dirty Talk
- "I don't like the idea of a further penalty against South, unless the director can determine that the remark was deliberate to get a misguess - which he won't be able to do." This. I am hopeful that all my talk during a bridge game has had a net ...
- An Extra Chance
- "Excellent read, like always." - snap. The argument that North can bid 3 spades as necessary bothers me. If I was playing some kitchen bridge it would be a stronger argument but otherwise I think this choice should always be looked at through the prism of how easy it is to ...
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