Bridge Winners Profile for Ron Zucker
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 26, 2010
- Last Seen
- May 20
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
I'm neither as good as I'd like to be nor as bad as I fear I am. I'm exactly the guy you play against most. I'm not incompetent, but you don't fear me. Since I'm not good enough to be arrogant, I aim for polite instead.
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- before the days of bidding boxes, LHO and pard passed. RHO heard 1C from another table, so holding 4-4 in the majors and an opening hand, he doubled. I hadn't been paying attention, looked at my hand and counted 10 HCP, so I redoubled. LHO called the director. "What seems to be the problem?" "We're playing in redoubled." "What redoubled?" "Nothing. Just redoubled."
- BBO Username
- RonZ
- ACBL Ranking
- Silver Life Master
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- Bringlish
- FWIW, I don't object to 1♦. If partner bids 1♥ over 1♣, life is easy. I'm willing to bid 1NT. But if partner bids 1♠, life could get ugly when I have a doubleton in the other major. I don't think I'd ...
- Bridge Player Archetypes
- Unfortunately, it's been a while since I've been able to be at an NABC. I'm definitely a "toughest competition" person. I like being beaten by the best, and try to be respectful as I try to learn to play better. Once they identified me as this type ...
- Petter Bengtsson's bidding problem: AT542 J3 J Q8643
- I didn't bid 1NT over 1♠ for a reason. I'm backing that judgment now.
- Martin Lindfors's bidding problem: AJ8632 --- KT5 KQ98
- I'd bid 3♠ at IMPs, but it's MPs. I'll pass.
- Joshua Donn's bidding problem: Jx xx Jxx AKT9xx
- I think 3NT has to be a hand sort of like this. I have nothing in hearts. If you do, I might have enough running tricks to make. I don't invite and then accept the invite, so it has to be clear that partner can run to 4♣ ...
- Leo Lasota's bidding problem: --- AKQ753 AKQ98 K2
- My problem with letting partner choose the suit via 4♣ or 5NT is that I don't want the lead coming through Kx of clubs. If I'm CERTAIN that 4♦ is leaping michaels, maybe, since it lets us get to 6♦ from the right side of ...
- Forcing or not forcing?
- I vote NF 5+, but what I claim to have in an auction where I might be faced with a tough bid and what I actually have are (not OFTEN, I don't think, but clearly more than some I know) sometimes not the same things. I, too, would bid ...
- Mike Gill's bidding problem: xx KQJ9x Kxx KTx
- Threshold question. Is this in a precision context, where partner is expecting drek for an opener? Because I'm a lot happier if this isn't a big time minimum, but merely a normal minimum. I usually like 2♦ on this sort of hand, using my general rule that ...
- I still don't get this whole ethics thing
- Well, except that my RHO had 6 spades, so kind of wanted to know. And was injured. I think I need to contact the director. If nothing else, we deserve a PP for the 3♣ call, I think.
- I still don't get this whole ethics thing
- I think you're talking about the 3♣ bid, as Steve Bloom posted below. If so, ignore my comment. I'm allowed to bid 2♠, as that's just bridge judgment within the system, but she's not allowed to pull it. If that's not what you ...
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