Bridge Winners Profile for Mike Gill
Basic Information
- Member Since
- March 16, 2011
- Last Seen
- 5 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
I'm a recovering astrophysicist originally from Boring, MD (yes, really) who now works doing programming and math. My wonderful wife and I now live in Columbia, MD with our son Trevor, who was born in September 2017. He's adorable and wonderful but so far he's terrible at bridge! In addition to bridge I enjoy entirely too many things given I'm a parent: running, sports, poker, barbu, board games, puzzles of various kinds, piano, cooking and eating (who enjoys cooking but doesn't love eating?!).
Bridge Information
- Bridge Accomplishments
- USA II (Junior) in 2006, 2nd in 2017 NAP, missed the 2017 Open GNT final by an IMP
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Noble Shore
- BBO Username
- mike gill
- ACBL Ranking
- Gold Life Master
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- Sven Pride's lead problem: K97532 J742 74 8
- To have the keycard bid, RHO must have clubs headed by the AK, two outside keycards and presumably a singleton in the other suit. Our best hope seems to be to knock out the side suit entry to the clubs and hope that either a) clubs are 4-1 and declarer ...
- Cynthia Huang's bidding problem: 2 Q4 AQT53 AJ852
- I think it's clear to pass 1♣. We rate to go plus against 1♣ (and maybe plus a lot) and it's unlikely we have a game because partner couldn't find a bid with what looks like short clubs and/or major suit length.
- Matchpoint Strategy
- Pretty sure both Chris and I were talking about the position actually shown by the OP. Irrespective of whether the line chosen was correct or not, at that point it's 100% to run diamonds since you've already pitched a spade and we are only talking about whether to ...
- Matchpoint Strategy
- You can safely pitch a club and a spade right?
- 1min - 1!S - 1NT - 2!H playing reverse Flannery and XY NT
- We play this as natural and GF. This makes 2♦ auctions a good bit better because opener can bid 2♥ to deny 3-support, which leaves responder a natural 2♠ and natural 2NT to probe for other contracts. Since we also rebid 1NT systemically with a singleton spade ...
- Trick one play
- Maybe I'm out on a limb here, but I would double at matchpoints on ♥A1098x if I had no outside cards. You might be about to defend 4♠ and you hate 2 of partner's 3 leads. Now at IMPs the odds change a bit since any tricks ...
- Please rank these choices
- I'm also a fan of 2/1 denies 4-card support. Just such a huge difference in evaluation for slam between 3 and 4 card support. If you have a long suit, it means you can take a ruff and still expect to draw trumps ending in dummy. If you ...
- Trick 2 Defense
- Isn't it more likely partner is 2425 with the same high cards? Arguably either hand could have balanced but I would think it more clear with a 6-card suit. If there's no possible 2nd heart trick coming then our only chance is ♦K. I didn't really consider ...
- Trick 2 Defense
- Need to force declarer to open up the club overruff to lead spades through me, so ♦K.
- Leo Lasota's bidding problem: T73 QJ2 JT3 T754
- I would have passed 2NT
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