Bridge Winners Profile for Richard Reitman
Basic Information
- Member Since
- April 2, 2014
- Last Seen
- 11 hours 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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- Technical question: is this 3!h bid forcing
- Agree. By extension, opener’s jump to 3m should be invitational.
- ATB - Just another missed slam
- ...but it also allows East to get in more cheaply should s/he rather than South have the strong hand.
- ATB - Just another missed slam
- Agree. All the more reason to pop to 5D right off the bat: only subsequently does North discover that South rather than East holds the strong hand. (Note the problem created by permitting a competitive “strong NT” to include a stiff in responder’s suit.)
- Technical question: is this 3!h bid forcing
- Are you willing to cope with the inability to show heart tolerance “forcibly” below 3NT just to cater to such a carefully-constructed hand?
- (1M)-1NT-transfers to the M...
- With a willing partner, against 5-card majors I play it invitational-plus with no “NT help” in the opened major.
- How do you play 4!H
- (Pretend that “What is 4H?” has no circle next to it.)
- Technical question: is this 3!h bid forcing
- Unfortunately, on occasion (as in this case) “the level to which one is forced” is unspecified.
- Technical question: is this 3!h bid forcing
- BIG “if” (as perhaps you implied).
- Technical question: is this 3!h bid forcing
- (Not to mention X better-positioning our side should LHO have the effrontery to raise spades.)
- Technical question: is this 3!h bid forcing
- Feel free to propose a specific hand with which a 1H-opener would be justified in (1) cue-bidding, then having learned of heart tolerance opposite, (2) passing 3H (dearer than 3m!).
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