Member Profile
Basic Information
- Member Since
- June 29, 2010
- Last Seen
- May 16
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
- Flight A player in Minnesota, who can best be characterized as "almost good".
- Country
- United States
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Winning the GNT Flight B National Finals
- Bridge Accomplishments
- GNT Flight B champions 2010. Many-time regional winner of Flight B NAP's and GNT's
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Andy Caranicas; Sam Larson
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Minnesota Grand Slam Bridge Club
- Favorite Tournaments
- Gopher Regional
- Favorite Conventions
- Top and Bottom Cuebids; Odd-Even Discards
- BBO Username
- Sterman
- ACBL Ranking
- Bronze Life Master
| Andy Caranicas - Richard Lawson 2/1 Bergen with gadgets |
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- The Temptations - Distrcit 14 GNT Flight A Finals
- =) Thanks. I like to think that a fierce competitive spirit means you live and die on whether a Ten will drop tripleton. But then you see people like Sabine Auken who have a lot of fun and are still competitive, and you think that maybe you need to tone it ...
- The Temptations - Distrcit 14 GNT Flight A Finals
- I'd feel better about 6D being made if the opening leader wasn't staring at the Ace of the unbid suit. That having been said, partner was once defending a grand looking at two Aces - one in the suit we'd been bidding, one in a side suit that ...
- The Temptations - Distrcit 14 GNT Flight A Finals
- That's very kind of you, Peg. I will also say I'm glad we won't be competing against your team in the GNT's for several years at least. =)
- In the Well: Sabine Auken
- Sabine, I love your book and have read it several times. It's amazing to see how much fun you still have with bridge. Thank you for writing it. =) The Vanderbilt appeal was seen as controversial, and some people even on this web site cast aspersions on your integrity just ...
- Dean Pokorny's bidding problem: AQJ82 A2 A QT964
- Would a true expert partner inflict a comic 1NT in an unfamiliar partnership? Something is clearly strange here. I'd want a bit more context - does my expert partner have a history of comic notrumps, does West have a history of lowball openers, etc.
- Richard Lawson's bidding problem: AQ Q643 KJ9 QT94
- So you would settle for a penalty double of 4H when you're red and they're white? That's the crux of the problem as I see it. Do you settle for a paltry +300 or +500 playing BAM, or do you try for something else? I will say ...
- Minor Amusement
- Just desserts, IMO. Isn't it standard to say, "I've already played this hand" and have the board tossed?
- Barnet Shenkin in Action
- I absolutely agree with Mr. Woolsey. All throughout the article, I was saying to myself that it would be much easier to analyze at the table after being able to factor in the mannerisms of my opponents.
- David Loeb's bidding problem: AQ8 742 AQ9 K863
- So I'm just curious: What prompted this poll? Did someone suggest that passing 2NT was better, or did someone think bidding game was better? Or did ten tricks with nine opposite fifteen end up being cold and you started to obsess over how you could have gotten there? (I ...
- Richard Lawson's bidding problem: AQxxxx Q --- Axxxxx
- In our system, 2C is unconditionally game-forcing and almost always shows five, although once in a blue moon we may do it with four.
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