Bridge Winners Profile for Mark Bartusek
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Sept. 19, 2015
- Last Seen
- 5 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Retired software engineer - Electronic Warfare (F-18 Superhornet) with Raytheon / Hughes Aircraft Companies
Texas Hold-em and Pot-limit Omaha player
Long-time owner of 1994 Mazda twin-turbo RX-7 modified to 400hp
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Partner and I played 3 quarters directly against Meckstroth/Rodwell in the Vanderbilt KOs. We got the best of them in 2 of the 3 quarters at our table and we knocked them out of the event!
- Bridge Accomplishments
- 5th overall in NABC Blue Ribbon Pairs, multiple 9-16 overalls in Vanderbilt / Spingold events, 1st overall in 0-5,000 and 0-10,000 NABC pairs (Note: played each event ONLY once), 4th overall in NABC Fast Pairs, 4th overall in NABC North American Swiss, 1st (twice) and 2nd (twice) in the annual Bridge World MSC Contest (out of 6 attempts) and on their expert panel for 2.5 years, ACBL National Appeals Committee co-team leader for 15 years.
- Regular Bridge Partners
- John Jones, Michael Schreiber, Jeff Miller, Carreen Hinds, the late Marshall Miles, Rick Panter, Will Beall, Jack Yeasley
- Member of Bridge Club(s)
- Santa Barbara, CA
- Favorite Conventions
- Kaplan Inversion with Flannery 2D
- BBO Username
- bart_rx7
- ACBL Ranking
- Emerald Life Master
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- Entering leads on Bridgemates
- My Santa Barbara Bridge Center has turned it on and I believe that most people like it (and it only takes about 10-15 seconds longer on average per hand). I think it definitely eliminates some scoring errors which makes the director's job easier since ACBL Score doesn't catch ...
- Bridge Software?
- Thank you !! This works great as a double-dummy analyzer of hands for my IMAC desktop!!
- Bridge Software?
- I noticed that this app does NOT provide a double-dummy playing option..... Does anyone know a site for MAC that provides a FREE double dummy analyzer??
- Símun Lassaberg's bidding problem: 73 T9432 9 AQ954
- I generally agree.....that's why I've only played it in partnerships which had explicit notes (with the treatment being highlighted!!) that were constantly reviewed by both partners prior to playing.
- Símun Lassaberg's bidding problem: 73 T9432 9 AQ954
- Michael: It's ironic that one of your long-term partners (Jeff) introduced it to me and wanted to play it. Did you ever play it with him??
- The weakness of lower strats
- My Santa Barbara club has kept raising the upper MP limit seemingly because players don’t wish to compete against the better players (and they want a better chance to win masterpoints). Management has also designated many more games as Club Championships or charity games in order to award more ...
- 1!S X 2!S X - Minors or can it have hearts?
- To avoid playing a 4-3 heart fit at the 3-level I prefer to play: X = minors 2NT = exactly 4 hearts and presumably a minor
- Poker anyone?
- I ended up with four 8's once in a national event several years ago (I seem to remember on defense!). Some people may remember that it was written up in the NABC daily bulletin with the title of "Crazy Eights". Obviously 4 aces is much more difficult. Once in ...
- What do you lead from J982? (Modified)
- The recent August 2018 issue of The Bridge World (TBW) magazine contained a Master Solver’s Club (MSC) Problem H addressing the same issue. i.e. 1NT passed out and you’re on lead with: ♠ J986 ♥ A1074 ♦ J10 ♣ 1093 The expert panel voted as follows: Lead ...
- Percentage play to find the Queen in 6!H?
- Perhaps my summary was a little bit too casual regarding that... but, it seems to me that cashing the trump Ace (as indicated by the polling) to cater to a stiff trump queen with LHO is higher percentage than immediately hooking the heart Jack at trick 2 catering specifically to ...
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