Bridge Winners Profile for Richard Reitman
Basic Information
- Member Since
- April 2, 2014
- Last Seen
- a minute 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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- Line of Play
- In practice that would often serve you well... but I wouldn’t rely on it against defenders I knew to be wily. Two main problems: (1) it gives up on East holding royal-x in hearts plus the guarded sp10, and (2) (assuming West appears not to have a problem) upon ...
- Rate North's bidding
- ...but “all” of your values = an optional opening hand...and it’s imps.
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- Tom: How can 1NT be “the best you can do” when X is by no means a lie and (unlike 1NT) could easily represent a maximum initial Pass? Eric: If that is the case, it must be prominently displayed on the CC. Absent such disclosure, there is no basis for ...
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- I’m amazed that some respondents see little inconsistency in portraying as 6-10 a hand they might have opened, and favorably-positioned to boot.
- Rate North's bidding
- I found the reason sufficiently warranted to select that answer option.
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- How many respondents regard AQ in the suit overcalled by RHO as “6 hcp”?
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- So partner, with 14 or a nice 13, is expected to keep bidding? Are we to assume that partner in 3rd chair has a light opener until proven otherwise?...a great way to miss a game at imps.
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- I said “over”, not “in response to”. Two very different kettles of fish.
- Treatments over 1NT with 5-card major
- ...leaving 3C free for...?
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- 1NT is an “unpopular opinion” because—over an overcall —including a great 11 for 1NT is an unpopular treatment. As for opener’s pass, by no means does it deny legitimacy.
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