Member Profile
Basic Information
- Member Since
- June 21, 2010
- Last Seen
- Oct. 4, 2012
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
- I am on several ACBL committees. I have been on the NAC (appeals committee) since 1984. I joined the ACBL Laws Commission in 2006. I was just added to the ACBL Ethical Oversight. I am particularly proud (and mystified) about being appointed to the ACBL Goodwill committee. My hobbies include my dogs, singing, wine, and watching baseball and basketball.
- Country
- United States
- Website
- http://www.sedonalending.com/
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Winning Linda's first Regional in Pittsburgh in 1986.
- Bridge Accomplishments
- NABC Champion
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Linda Gordon
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Sedona Bridge Center
- Favorite Tournaments
- Phoenix, Denver, Albuquerque, Verona, Gold Coast
- Favorite Conventions
- transfers of all kinds
- BBO Username
- robbg
- ACBL Ranking
- Emerald Life Master
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- Active Ethics and the Alert Procedure
- I am in full agreement with Kit but I would also add that on hand 2 bidding 4H would not occur to many players, even fine players, even assuming they treated 3H as a natural game/slam try over the FSJS (as opposed to Kit's Last Train, surely a ...
- NICKELL Narrowly Wins 62-Board Semi Final
- I have to disagree. There are many unintended consequences to slow play, and it is actually quite unpleasant. The discussion of WHAT to do about it is complex and has confounded the ACBL board and COC committees for years. I kind of like the new regulations, although I am uncomfortable ...
- NICKELL Narrowly Wins 62-Board Semi Final
- Pulling boards (an penalizing when appropriate) is certainly a reasonable way to address slow play as long as it is in the COC. But I find the incident described by Bob Heitzman disturbing. The "rules" or COC should NEVER be changed after the start of an event for anybody's ...
- I am Spartacus
- It seems from the comments that I do not write clearly, as they do not seem to relate more than tangentially to what I said. Bill, I would not conduct business at the bridge table in Sedona nor anywhere else. I simply said that the schedule in Philly (and Atlanta ...
- I am Spartacus
- the schedule doesn't work for me Henry. But I am one person who happens to have a business. I have never been good at leaving my work at home either :)
- I am Spartacus
- There was a time in the not too distant past when most bridge players worked for a living. Session times were arranged to accommodate work schedules including occasional "horizontal" scheduled events at regionals. The bridge playing population has aged and many are retired now. But some of us that aren ...
- I am Spartacus
- Ahh, yes. This is exactly the bogus rumor to which I referred. NOBODY was caught cheating with cellphones in SF, but there was a lot of talk about it, some of it spread by ACBL Board members.
- I am Spartacus
- I hear the ACBL has invested in a Predator drone that will fly around the room detecting cell phones and zap their owners. Seriously, I think banning cell phones and devices from the playing area is bad for many reasons and should be reconsidered. Cheaters WILL cheat, with or without ...
- forcing pass????
- NF. If you don't know who owns the hand, it isn't forcing, and from the auction I certainly don't know.
- In the Well: Bob Hamman
- Over the years it seems that we have made great advances in creating an atmosphere where behavior and separately, ethics are much better than even 30 years ago. Do you agree? What changes in culture and/or regulation still need to happen to make our game even better?
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