Bridge Winners Profile for Mike Bell
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Jan. 21, 2011
- Last Seen
- 2 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Pro
- about me
One of England's top pros. A system geek, but an increasingly practical one. I haven't played in the last couple of US Nationals but I had some success in 2017 partnering David Gold on Richie Schwartz's team.
I live in London with my wife, Sarah, who won the Freeman BAM at her first Nationals in Toronto.
- Country
- United Kingdom
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Psyching a world-class pair into their 5-0 fit at the five-level in the semi-final of a major KO.
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Mitchell BAM winner and "won" a session of the Reisinger final in San Diego; Spingold semi-finalist in Toronto. Winner of Yeh Bros Pairs, Spring Foursomes (3 times), Chairman's Cup, English Premier League (4 times).
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Ben Norton, Sarah Bell, David Gold
- Favorite Conventions
- Passed hand 2C response to 1S showing five hearts (in conjunction with 2D as Drury).
- BBO Username
- mickyb
- ACBL Ranking
- None
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- Alex Hydes's bidding problem: K4 AKQJT642 8 54
- Thanks Richard!
- Alex Hydes's bidding problem: K4 AKQJT642 8 54
- Alex - wild stab in the dark, but is partner you?
- considerably worse than trivial
- In related news, the most recent smother play I saw at the table occurred when declarer forgot to ruff something at trick 11, inadvertently endplaying my partner to get the trick back.
- considerably worse than trivial
- Stupidly talented guy, came 4th out of over 100 in his first tournament and has spent most of his bridge life with an NGS of 65+. Absurd of me to have not written the hand down.
- considerably worse than trivial
- I was once taking a supervised class, and filling in as a defender. I realised that I was on lead to trick 12 in a smother play position. Somewhat shocked, I took a few seconds to play a card, so the novice declarer put me out of my misery by ...
- Trivial - NO, something worse than trivial
- I've been looking for hands with one card of each rank, IIRC the stats suggest I should have seen some since I started looking but it's not happened yet (or I've missed it when it has).
- Arrow Switches
- Also, I would think the last round was the least likely time to have to take boards away.
- Arrow Switches
- A disadvantage of arrow-switching the first round is that, if the E/W pairs forget to skip, they are unlikely to realise until it's too late for the N/S pairs to be able to play the board.
- Opponents remind you of your own failure to alert -- AI or UI?
- Ed - we also alert any artificial bid that isn't specifically announceable, e.g. 2♣ openings.
- Opponents remind you of your own failure to alert -- AI or UI?
- Yes. I'm not entirely clear how it happened, but it was certainly what happened. One possibility is that people tend to alert artificial bids more enthusiastically than natural ones.
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