Member Profile
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 4, 2011
- Last Seen
- 6 seconds ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Having taken up bridge a few years ago, I am working hard on trying to improve my game. When I'm not playing bridge, reading about it, or writing about it, I'm working on Bridge Winners.
- Country
- United States
- Website
- http://www.askpolly.com/
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Making an unmakable 7NT contract when the opponents had an unknown 11-card club fit and both guarded clubs, allowing me to make the contract
- Bridge Accomplishments
- 2010 National MiniMcKenney winner (50-100); finished 29th in the 2012 NABC+ North American Swiss
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Kevin Schoenfeld, Ron Karr, Don Rothschild, Franklin Gonzalez, Randy Ryals, Kurt Siedenburg, Peggy Sprague, Missy Verson
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Unit 503, Palo Alto
- Favorite Tournaments
- Monterey Clambake, Palm Springs Regional
- Favorite Conventions
- HeLLo, Spiral, Kokish anything
- BBO Username
- biciclista
- ACBL Ranking
- Silver Life Master
| Will and Polly (rev 2) 2 over 1 |
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| Kip & Polly Convention card 2 over 1 |
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| Margery Yates & Polly Siegel 2 over 1 |
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- Polly Siegel's bidding problem: AKT8 JT985 --- KQJ7
- I don't know why I put that there... I felt I had to put something. Just ignore it :)
- Psych!
- That, I couldn't tell you. I agree that his hand was worth a raise to 3♣. But given how few times I've ever psyched, it's unlikely he suspected I was psyching. He may have just decided that with scattered honors and only a four-four fit in ...
- Help me choose: what to read next?
- Sam -- that's a great word, thanks for sharing! You would think that there would be a word in German to describe such a thing as well... if so, does anyone know what it is?
- Psych!
- You mean asking for keycards by bidding a phantom void (one that you have cards in) so you won't get the lead of that suit?
- Psych!
- thx for the recommendation -- I'll add it to my ever growing reading list!
- Psych!
- I'm actually looking for examples of both tactical bids (the one that John mentions above, I have made in the past), and psychs. If the bid I described in my post is more accurately classified as a tactical bid, then I have never psyched in my life. But it ...
- Psych!
- That's pretty awesome, John.. thx for sharing!
- Psych!
- Maybe all safe psychs are really tactical bids. :) Your #1 psych does seem like a true psych. I guess it's the same one my partner pulled on me in the KOs... it didn't work out well in that particular instance, but you do have a rebid. If your ...
- Help me choose: what to read next?
- Thank you all for your votes, suggestions and insightful comments about the various books. This has been a really interesting and useful thread. I'm going to take a stab at summarizing, and hopefully I won't have missed something important in doing so. (This way I can come back ...
- Help me choose: what to read next?
- I think I'm going to wait on Rodwell, tempting as it would be to read it, based on the many comments in this post.
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