Bridge Winners Profile for Ron Zucker
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 26, 2010
- Last Seen
- March 17
- 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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- 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 ...
- I still don't get this whole ethics thing
- That's something I didn't consider, and seems clear. 2♠ should be to play. It was almost certainly influenced by the explanation. I think it should have been rolled back to 2♠ by me in my 3-1 fit. And I should have called the director after the ...
- I still don't get this whole ethics thing
- Thanks. I thought that true, but saying that we've discussed follow ups to DONT is so clearly self serving, even if true. After all, we've also discussed that we play DONT, and she's forgotten that, right? Just asking, and I'm not doubting you, but how can ...
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