Bridge Winners Profile for Richard Whitehead
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Feb. 6, 2011
- Last Seen
- 4 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- BBO Username
- richard09
- ACBL Ranking
- Silver Life Master
| Harvey 2 over 1 GF |
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| Carolyn |
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| John 2/1 Game Force |
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| Penny Mexican 2/1 GF |
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| Team Whitehead 2 over 1 |
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| Bob 2/1 Game Force |
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- when you, as opening bidder, have a 3-suited hand, you have shown two of them, and responder bids 4th suit forcing in your 3rd suit. What to do?
- I always just raise the 4th suit holding 4-card support, so 3♥ for me. But one partner has told me that the "gold standard" for bidding is to bid NT with a stopper in the 4th suit, and reserve raising the 4th suit for hands that you can't ...
- Hesitation Problem
- Yes. I recognize the hand. I did bid 5C as an advance sacrifice the first time, and they guessed wrong. 5H-1 was above-average for us.
- Ethical, questionable or cheating?
- I don't usually try to read the opponents, because I'm mostly not very good at it. But one technique that I do like is to assume my usual position staring at the dummy's cards, and (without moving my head) flick a quick eyes-left or eyes-right to get ...
- Playing Weak NT. How to bid after 1m=1M with 4 card support.
- I apologise. For some (unknown) reason, I started thinking you wrote the OP.
- Playing Weak NT. How to bid after 1m=1M with 4 card support.
- I think Ulrich's comment was aimed at the sequence 1m-1M; 1N when Responder might not be inclined to use checkback when minimum.
- Playing Weak NT. How to bid after 1m=1M with 4 card support.
- I don't have a problem with over-alerting if everybody does it (appropriately). I have a problem when I'm told to alert a fairly innocuous bid and (for example) Precision pairs don't have to alert a lot of their bids which have serious implications that the average (non-big-club ...
- Playing Weak NT. How to bid after 1m=1M with 4 card support.
- And the next time you try that, Opener will be 5-3-3-2 with a 15-count (5 of his minor), and you will be adrift at the 2-level with no fit.
- Playing Weak NT. How to bid after 1m=1M with 4 card support.
- Pretty much irrelevant. If you don't raise with support, if partner has a 5-card major but is weak enough to pass 1NT, you risk the embarrassment of going down in 1NT when you could have played in your 9-card major fit at the 2-level. If partner is strong enough ...
- Playing Weak NT. How to bid after 1m=1M with 4 card support.
- I have been told, in no uncertain terms, that it is alertable, not that the people involved were tournament directors, but they are top class players who should know what they are talking about. When I told them that this was ridiculous, they agreed with me.
- Steve Barnfield
- I never knew him, but I'm sorry for your loss.
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