Bridge Winners Profile for Doug Smith
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Aug. 12, 2013
- Last Seen
- April 10
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Nearing retirement, revisiting my beloved bridge after a 15 year or so layoff for career and studies. I like 2/1, strong club, am learning strong club with positive transfers, Fantunes 2-bids, and am interested in Polish Club.
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Became life master years ago in Connecticut with favorite partner YLS.
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Have never resorted to violence (or been a target) at the table
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Carson Valley in Gardnerville, NV and CUBE in Carson City, NV
- Favorite Tournaments
- Las Vegas, Seaside, and Sacramento Regionals; want to attend more Nationals.
- BBO Username
- treksmith
- ACBL Ranking
- Silver Life Master
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- A story from the weak club -2
- fun story!
- 1NT Openers With Singleton Honors
- Interesting; consider a partnership where the first partner (me) thinks transfers are off but responder thinks they are on: If I psyched 1nt with a void instead of singleton, and my partner (with say a heart void) transfers me into spades, and I pass, we could end up in a ...
- WBF - Let the Change Begin!
- Now I'm becoming curious as to what types of drugs the WBF tests for (or plans to). Just academically curious, of course.
- Salsomaggiore Problems
- Great article; I remember a rock band years ago had some musical instruments broken by an airline; after months of being jacked around by the airline they wrote a song called, as I recall, United Breaks Guitars, and placed it on UTube. I believe they heard from United soon after ...
- 1NT Openers With Singleton Honors
- That is a great story, Ed! I plan to use it myself (unless you quickly copyright).
- 1NT Openers With Singleton Honors
- this is helpful! thanks.
- In the Well: Eddie Wold
- When playing strong club, do you prefer to use transfer responses? I like the idea of 1C then 1D and 1H being transfers and 1S being weak, but have also played 1C-1D weak and 1H for spades etc; any comments? Fantunes (which a pard and I tried) use (sorry 'used ...
- Great sportsmanship at the senior trials
- "...sometimes common sense and fairness should override the regulations." ...not a bad motto, imo.
- What now?
- i'd ruff the last club, then start playing on diamonds, if east ruffs in he is endplayed; if he doesnt ruff in or has protected diamonds, maybe can put him in with a trump and he will be out of clubs?
- has there been an ACBL tournament recently?
- Great point John, in fact I wouldn't mind hearing a bit more about the atmosphere, stories, and interactions at some of the other tournaments, especially England and the Continent. I'm hoping this globablization of bridge tournaments will educate us all in new systems, approaches, etc. even if we ...
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