Bridge Winners Profile for James Vogl
Basic Information
- Member Since
- June 18, 2012
- Last Seen
- May 17
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
- Former backgammon/poker professional. Currently a hedge fund manager addicted to bridge since 2006 but am pretty hopeless.
- Country
- United Kingdom
Bridge Information
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Having first monthly positive statement after 6 years at the rubber bridge club.
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- TGR
- ACBL Ranking
- None
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- Crunch Time
- Instead of refusing to make a bid, why doesn’t everyone sit down against them and just pass whenever it’s their turn? They get tops, win the tournament, but who cares?... everyone knows that second place is the real winner. No one is disqualified, no one gets sued, and ...
- Memory/Visualisation
- Lynn, I don’t think it’s difficult to teach how to play the cards. To answer your question, very simply when dummy comes down count your winners, then your losers. If short of winners, find extra ways and there are only so many ways to do this - finesses, endplays ...
- Memory/Visualisation
- Aha, misunderstood you all those years ago. Fascinating. So you don’t ‘see’ end positions? Rather you get the logic of them?
- Memory/Visualisation
- Bingo. No world class players need to write down. Hence the search for more techniques as I think this is something that can be learned with a lot of practice also.
- Memory/Visualisation
- Interesting. I am not that extreme but I read a book: “Anna opens the fridge”... I would never imagine what colour hair Anna has or what’s in the fridge unless the author described it, which most people do. Similar in bridge... I can’t really visualise. I can count ...
- Memory/Visualisation
- It’s amazing to me that the answers to the poll are so spread and there are a zillion books on backwash squeezes and the law blah blah... when this is probably the most fundamental part of becoming a good player and haven’t seen any of them. Don’t ...
- Memory/Visualisation
- Where are the packets each time you think of them? WNES?
- Venice Bridge Tournament. Harris Pairs Withdraw.
- Dunno, Nedju, believe it or not I used to find it fun in poker to play known or suspected cheats and think how they were marking the cards etc... part of the game to protect yourself against cheats. If you want to play for the beauty of the game, need ...
- Memory/Visualisation
- Right but do you ever suggest to them whether to remember 7=3=1=2 like that, horizontally, or 7 3 1 2 ?
- Memory/Visualisation
- Get you play so much you just feel it. But once discussed this with a top top player and he actually visualises a grid in the form a 4 way newspaper hand diagram and crosses off each card it is played, so very visual like reading a map.
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