Bridge Winners Profile for Steve Bloom
Basic Information
- Member Since
- May 27, 2010
- Last Seen
- 4 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
- Retired mathematician and general curmudgeon.
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- I once got nailed by a real-life rueful rabbit.
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Betty, my one and only.
- Favorite Conventions
- Transfers, of many, many breeds.
- BBO Username
- sbloom
- ACBL Ranking
- Grand Life Master
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- ATB - missed Red game at IMP Pairs
- South should never lead a spade, but I can find layouts where a very aggressive spade lead is needed to set 2NT. Simply because 2NT made three does not mean that 3NT would fetch. Heart is reasonable, as is a club, but the heart lead gives up a tempo. Now ...
- The Fallacy of Restricted Choice
- "Let's hope all agree." I'll agree to three of those four words. You are refusing to recognize that the defender does not have to play the same honor every time when holding both honors.
- What's Your Plan?
- @ Jay: If you bid four diamonds, partner will play you for ten red suit cards. Assuming partner is short in spades, which seems obvious, partner will suspect your club void. When you suggest a save, but then double, partner will almost certainly play you for a club void.
- What's Your Plan?
- Four clubs and four diamonds are natural bids, and encourage partner to push to the five-level, something you do not want. You seem to have three tricks on defense, and partner will often produce the fourth winner. That said, bidding four diamonds could work out quite well - if partner saves ...
- What should N/S have done?
- Are you aggravated when partner passes, in first seat, and later overcalls hearts? If the hand did not qualify for a bid the first time, that does not mean it is never correct to bid.
- Strategy at Swiss Teams (20VP scale) vs. IMP Pairs?
- Strongly disagree. You make a probability judgment when you bid a game. One factor is the likelihood that your opponents will find the winning defense. When your opponents are lousy, you bid more aggressively - in teams, in IMP pairs, in Matchpoints. Doesn't matter. So, to take your MP's ...
- Strategy at Swiss Teams (20VP scale) vs. IMP Pairs?
- Forget this hand. Suppose you pick up a hand and judge that it is worth trying for game. Do you invite? Bash? There are clearly advantages to inviting: Even if you judge that game will often be reasonable, that game will likely not be so hot facing the subset of ...
- What should N/S have done?
- I would happily bid three hearts over one spade. If I am going to play weak jump overcalls, and if I am white on red, why would I ever pass with the South hand?
- Percentage of Blame
- 5-3-3-2 hands, facing balanced shape, usually do better (at IMPs) playing in notrump. When South shows the five spades, and then bids 3NT, after, say, a 1NT opening, opener can assume no second suit. That assumption is not so clear on this cramped auction. So, opener normally assumes that responder ...
- Debbie Rosenberg's bidding problem: KT8 9653 A43 AQ4
- So, if partner is short in hearts and has a long suit, then I should get in? Isn't that partner's job?
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