Bridge Winners Profile for Richard Reitman
Basic Information
- Member Since
- April 2, 2014
- Last Seen
- 45 seconds ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Twice a national champion,
I plan to play more often,
having recently retired from
a 33-yr career as an MD specializing
in Emergency Care and Orthopedics.
email: probridge@me.com
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Winning the Senior Swiss with a first-time partner and first-time teammates.
- Bridge Accomplishments
- 1st in the Senior Swiss in DC, 2nd in the Mixed Pairs in Louisville, 1st in the 0-5K Pairs
- Favorite Conventions
- (1) Drury, (2) splinters, (3) expanded use of transfers.
- BBO Username
- dbl me
- ACBL Ranking
- Diamond Life Master
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- Alex Hydes's bidding problem: K4 AKQJT642 8 54
- Assuming partner was on the same page as OP, s/he must have enough hearts not to fear 2 trump losers, and enough spades both to expect us to be short and not to fear 4S: 109xxx 98x AKx Ax.
- Cash out or continue?
- Sath, thanks for the detailed “reveal”— always of keen interest to most respondents. Here, North’s covering option in spades was key. For the benefit of those inexperienced w/ attitude leads, it is commonly possible to show “degrees” of attitude. Here, for example, I’d have led the 3 rather ...
- Merijn Groenenboom's bidding problem: 5432 92 AQ 97532
- Presumably LHO has 4+ clubs, but I ain’t stayin’ here.
- Tomislav šAšEk's bidding problem: --- J AT976 AJ97543
- Thanks, Richard. Perhaps it’s not such a good idea to attempt to read fine print on my cell phone screen.
- Tomislav šAšEk's bidding problem: --- J AT976 AJ97543
- (Hard to believe we aren’t even told whether 2C was GF.)
- Hendrik Sharples's bidding problem: AK9 AJ973 AJ32 5
- Assuming we play Leb., why not take advantage of the extra options below 3N by doubling, then bidding 3H over 2N/3C/3D, allowing pd to ask for a NT guard.
- Marten La Haye's bidding problem: J A85 AJT3 KQ954
- If partner has Qx(x), s/he can (will?) chance a 3NT bid; if otoh the hand suggests asking, siding may be a non-issue.
- How far do you have to go in "protecting" your opponents?
- Accurately stated, it’s not the “agreement”, but “what we’re doing”, that’s “undiscussed”. An agreement simply either exists or doesn’t.
- 2 parter
- With 3 poor spades and such truthful alternatives, getting partner spade-oriented early is ill-advised. If opener has 4 fine spades, s/he need only bid them or X again after a 2NT/3D reply to the 1st X. If not, your 2S could earn you the rare privilege of “challenging ...
- 2 parter
- As opener, I’d be worried that a 2nd X might be taken as denying the AKQ-4th of diamonds. After all, I want pd, if holding the spA, to think 6D.
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