Bridge Winners Profile for Raphael Hallerman
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Dec. 15, 2016
- Last Seen
- Jan. 28
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
USBF Junior and 4th year computer science and economics undergrad at UChicago
Bridge Information
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Sean McNally, Cynthia Huang, Ilan Wolff
- BBO Username
- rhallerman
- ACBL Ranking
- None
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- Raphael Hallerman's bidding problem: 3 K9865 Q9 JT954
- I took it as showing a fit (partner is experienced and my understanding is that this is the most common treatment). But Ilan is right, it is undiscussed.
- Raphael Hallerman's bidding problem: K753 A65 KQT953 ---
- We were in 5♦-2 :)
- Raphael Hallerman's bidding problem: K753 A65 KQT953 ---
- ♠J98 ♥KJ7 ♦AJ7 ♣KJ82. Diamonds split 4-0, and both ♥Q and ♠Q were off.
- Raphael Hallerman's bidding problem: K753 A65 KQT953 ---
- So this hand was actually not mine. I was the 3NT bidder, and the 2 tables in the team match made different calls over 3NT. I was just curious whether Pass was clear, bidding on was clear, or neither (hard for me to evaluate after seeing the results of different ...
- New suit forcing/non-forcing?
- It was the last one. I passed, taking it as non-forcing. He was in fact 5-5 with a GF hand, but due to multiple bad breaks was only able to make 2♥ for a top! Still got an earful.
- New suit forcing/non-forcing?
- In my main partnership (playing precision), we use 1♦-2M how you described. So yes, for us 2♥ here would be GF, while X would be more about general values and possibly wanting to penalize 2♣ (opener could have 4-5 clubs).
- New suit forcing/non-forcing?
- This was a strong contender, don't get me wrong. Just wanted to keep things clean in the poll, without getting the new partner aspect involved.
- New suit forcing/non-forcing?
- Will add this as an option. So when would you choose to X or 2♥?
- Raphael Hallerman's bidding problem: KJ6 KQ2 J976 KQ6
- My vote is now for what I bid at the table. Seems like 2/3 people were going to disagree with me no matter what action I took.
- Raphael Hallerman's bidding problem: AKQT5 KQJ6 QT52 ---
- Like I said above, I was unsure which bids were still systems on (this was not with a regular partner), but I do agree that 3♥ is definitely more informative than 3♣ if it's still on.
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