Bridge Winners Profile for Richard Reitman
Basic Information
- Member Since
- April 2, 2014
- Last Seen
- 48 minutes 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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- Are you "allowed to know"?
- No, Michael, I ain’t the “hangin’ judge”...and I try hard to process, not just peruse, what others write.
- Are you "allowed to know"?
- Michael, there is such a planet; it goes by the name “earth”. Both proximate posts omit the scenario we’ve all witnessed before, wherein regardless of the force, partner “panics” due to a void in the shown suit and exceptional length in the bid suit. The live possibility of that ...
- Are you "allowed to know"?
- (Deleted.)
- Are you "allowed to know"?
- Even if partner is “barred” from passing, s/he may nonetheless “panic” with, eg., a 2=5=0=6 minimum. Analogously, over opps’ 1NT intervenor bids 2D agreed as a transfer to hearts, whereupon advancer, holding, e.g., 3=0=7=3, decides to pass.
- Are you "allowed to know"?
- Actually, not so. You must proceed as if partner had immediately alerted 2C exactly as per the partnership agreement, hence “logically” should have 11+ round-suit cards and a diamond void.
- Are you "allowed to know"?
- You are to imagine yourself denied any such information at all, i.e., as if screens are always in use.
- Are you "allowed to know"?
- Any discussion of failure to alert/announce can be simplified by the ironclad principle that, if the call in question is in fact alertable/announceable, the caller must proceed as though it had been duly alerted/announced. (Realization that a call believed alertable/announceable at the moment it was made ...
- Are you "allowed to know"?
- Any uncertainty in such matters can be resolved by remembering that screens, whether real or virtual, must always be “in use”.
- FP situation? If not who should bid 5?
- Michael, please feel free to explain how to word more clearly what you very well know I mean...
- FP situation? If not who should bid 5?
- (...as per Mike G’s post.)
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