Bridge Winners Profile for Jeff Ruben
Basic Information
- Member Since
- April 15, 2011
- Last Seen
- 51 minutes ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
Bridge Information
- Bridge Accomplishments
- First in National 4-Session Swiss (1973), Third in UPC Senior Swiss (2009), Second in Bruce LM Pairs (2012)
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Andy Stayton, Andy Kaufman, Jess Stuart, Rick Rowland, Randy Berseth, Richard Morgen, Richard Popper, and the late Dave Treadwell and Ivar Stakgold
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Bridge Studio of Delaware
- BBO Username
- jmrdel
- ACBL Ranking
- Sapphire Life Master
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- Jeff Ruben's bidding problem: --- 98 AKJ9765 AK98
- Sorry about that. I thought I posted the problem and then saw that it was still in draft so I posted it again, so now it is there twice and I cannot remove either of them.
- bidding question
- I would play it as lead directing. If partner has the red suits and enough to come in, he could have bid over 1NT. No point in making a penalty double since they will never play it there. The double would get us off to a good start against, say ...
- RIP Ken Cohen
- I don't know if it is legal to play certain bids only against certain players, but I always wanted to play Fishbein against Kenny.
- Rating Study from ACBL Tournaments
- https://www.bridgepowerratings.com/PRhome.HTM
- Remembering My Dad
- The headline in the Cleveland Plain Dealer that morning was "42 home runs for 141 singles."
- James on Jeopardy TV show
- He said that bridge is a great game. He also said that he is half the age of the next youngest person there.
- Another Dream About The NABC
- I can tell you that if I dream about bridge it's never about what went right.
- Weird ATB problem using transfer responses to 1!c
- In my club, and I am sure in many others, the worst thing you can do is bid a close slam and go down, since most of the other pairs will not be bidding it. Better to stop in game and hope to take a trick more than the field.
- 3-level responses to 1NT
- It may be splitting hairs, but when deciding to show a min or max over 2S you might go either way with some 16-counts. Using both 4S and 4NT as invitational, you would bid 6 with any 16 over 4S and pass over 4NT. Maybe not the greatest treatment ever ...
- 3-level responses to 1NT
- Rather than leave 4S undefined, I play it as a maximum quantitative slam try, better than 4NT; partner should bid 4NT only with the barest minimum, whereas over 4NT he only moves with a maximum of his own.
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