Bridge Winners Profile for Hank Eng
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Feb. 24, 2012
- Last Seen
- Sept. 26
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
I've always loved bidding theory, but recently I've discovered the joys and pains of partnership defense.
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- My first planned double squeeze.
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Brian Bankler, RT, CDM
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Fiesta Bridge Club
- Favorite Tournaments
- NABCs, San Antonio/Austin/Las Vegas/Reno/San Diego regionals
- Favorite Conventions
- Takeout dbl; xfers (including xfer advances)
- ACBL Ranking
- Gold Life Master
| Polish with Brian Polish 1C (usually weak NT), UDA (obvious shift) |
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| v6.5 xfer Walsh in midchart xfer Walsh, 2/1, weak NT, UDCA |
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- Mystery of Barry Crane
- When I tried Paul's link, it didn't work. So, I found this other link: https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20190509/news/305099845/
- what is this 3!D means ?
- I know most of my local club players play it as a splinter; I play it as 5-5 with strong suits. So, I would never make it without discussion. (Most of my fellow club players also play fast arrival - I play picture bids.)
- If a hesitation can be unethical can a quick bid also?
- what about the confident No Trump bid with no stopper? This especially happens at the one-level, like 1C-(1S)-1N.
- When two cue bids are available
- Playing at the lower levels (club games) in San Antonio, many of my partners told me these showed the black suits after 1♦-p-1♥: dbl 1N 2♦ 2♥ 2N I convinced my three regular partners that you don't need 5 bids to show two hand types ...
- What does this bid mean to you?
- If the novice kibitzing the table says, "That bids seems unusual..."
- Combined Bergen Raises
- Hardy's raises work pretty well: 1M-2M three or four card single raise 1M-2N four plus card balanced game-force (Jacoby) 1H-3D under jump shift: 9-12, four card raise, undisclosed splinter 1S-3H under jump shift: 9-12, four card raise, undisclosed splinter 1M-3M limit raise: 10-12, four trumps or three trumps with ...
- 1NT-P-3NT-X
- I heard this as a Ewen double (at least, that was the author's name on the book).
- David Goldfarb's bidding problem: KQ2 864 AJ9 9654
- Oops, you're right. I read the bidding too fast, but partner does seem to be sitting on a good overcall, without trumps, that wants to compete - a Pseudo Maximal situtation.
- David Goldfarb's bidding problem: KQ2 864 AJ9 9654
- Isn't a double here maximal, without extra trumps? But with just 8+8 = 16 total trumps, if we can make 10 or 9 tricks, they are going off 3 or 2 tricks, doubled.
- Hank Eng's bidding problem: AT92 AKQJ --- AJ873
- At the table, I bid 2NT and played it there. The opening lead was a low diamond and dummy had Jxx T9x JT8xx T9. 2NT was makeable, but I didn't keep track of the carding well enough and went down.
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