Member Profile
Basic Information
- Member Since
- March 31, 2012
- Last Seen
- 11 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Pro
- about me
- I've been playing pro since March 2010. I studied Computer Science and Mathematics at UVA for a while. Don't try and talk to me with words; words are hard.
- Country
- United States
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Playing Phantom Club with Greg Humphreys in the midnights I bid clubs naturally for the first time at the 7-level and found the 5% line to make the contract. Win 17. Lose by 1.
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Not much, 2nd in Mitchell BAM 2010. Several other national pairs/teams finals.
- BBO Username
- BradyBot
- ACBL Ranking
- Silver Life Master
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- Dean Pokorny's bidding problem: K76 Q8753 K32 J6
- I really want to play 1N, hopefully partner doesn't have a 5 card suit or else it seems my methods don't allow me to collect a plus score.
- Play 4 Spades
- Win the ♥K and lead the ♠9. My hope is that whoever wins the trick will be endplayed into giving dummy an entry. If South happens to hold Hx in spades this might work very well because it may not be clear that he should win this trick, especially if ...
- I would prefer an 11-card trump fit
- From the auction and early play it looks like RHO has at least 11 cards in the pointed suits: 8 spades and the ♦KQ2. This doesn't feel 100% to me and if LHO is known to play random spot cards to confuse partner then I may reconsider but I ...
- I would prefer an 11-card trump fit
- Steve, if trumps are 2-1 (as suggested by the poll options) you can make on all 4-2 club breaks by simply ruffing out clubs. 3 club ruffs and a diamond ruff in hand in addition to pulling 2 rounds of trumps makes the dummy good. If trumps are 3-0 you ...
- Tomislav šAšEk's bidding problem: QJ9x KQTxx 98 AJ
- When I respond to these polls with no system information given, I tend to assume the auction is sensible up till this point and that the bids have some sort of logic behind them. If we were supposed to bid 2♥ with this hand then partner was supposed to ...
- Slam Play Decision
- John, I have to say that your examples, while good for beginning players just don't use the math correctly even though they usually come up with the same answer. When calculating the percentages after gaining information (in this example LHO played the 2 and 4, RHO played the J ...
- Slam Play Decision
- Yep, righty would have 1147 with a jack-high suit and 4 highs. I'm not sure he has any reason to enter the auction if this is his hand. The only thing that seems slightly inconsistent to me is that he didn't play the ♣J at trick one, but ...
- Slam Play Decision
- FWIW we can make if East shows out and West began with 4432 (need to guess the ♦Q). We cash 3 diamonds throwing a club from hand and 4 spades throwing a club from dummy reaching the following ending - North: - xx x - South: A T9 - - West: - Q7 - Q. Now we ...
- John Adams's bidding problem: 9 932 AKQ9 AJ843
- Partner suggested not defending 4♠. My hand doesn't look like it is right to defend either with a stiff spade and all controls. Sure, we might go down at the three level if the hand is a complete misfit, but it sounds like partner has something in clubs ...
- When to rebid 2 of a major
- I'm selecting the "Never" option because it is the closest one I could find to "Rarely". The modern style seems to be to raise on 3 cards more and more frequently, even with some balanced hands. If partner is raising me a lot of the time on 3 then ...
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