Bridge Winners Profile for Mike Gill
Basic Information
- Member Since
- March 16, 2011
- Last Seen
- 3 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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- Violet Anderson's bidding problem: AJ642 K98 KJ64 5
- 4♥ doesn’t cost nothing if partner thinks we’re just looking for a max and not a perfecta. We could have the same shape and 18. And partner can’t even bid slam with that since wouldn’t we also bid 4♥ with a strong hand and ...
- How Hard Will You Strain to Raise
- Since nobody else has said it that I noticed, I think it's important to say that the doubleton diamond is important here. Definitely if you have 4 diamonds there is no reason to push, but even with 3 I would probably pass hands 1 and 2.
- Attention to Detail
- In my head, every Kit's Korner column is titled "Attention to Detail"
- Joe Clark's bidding problem: 5 7 KT984 Q97632
- Your definition of always and mine are very different.
- Is it a demand or a suggestion?
- 2♣ is so bad because you're bypassing showing the most important feature of your hand to show a bad 5-card club suit and to overbid by at least a point probably more, especially when it's pretty likely that you're not going to be able to show ...
- Raphael Hallerman's bidding problem: AKQT5 KQJ6 QT52 ---
- My gut reaction was 3♣ but it just seems like partner is just going to bid 3NT over that almost all the time and I won't be able to find out about spade support in a controlled way.
- Kevin O'Dea's bidding problem: T62 A6 AKJ6 A875
- Originally thought pass but isn’t slam good opposite normal minima like AKQxxx xxx x xxx with a rounded K or AQxxxx Kxx x Kxx?
- ATB missed slam II
- Maybe you could have chosen a better example, but bidding on is fine opposite that hand since you can stop safely in a number of places. I don't think North has safety above 3NT trying for slam opposite random 6-4 minimum hands (heck even 3NT could easily fail).
- ATB missed slam II
- South could have KQJxxx xx KQxx x from North's perspective so I don't see how North can do anything but pass 3N.
- James Huntington's bidding problem: AK3 KQ65 KJ32 85
- Isn’t partner’s range shifted up since mine is shifted down for the balancing x? Seems like partner could just have 9-10 HCP and 4s and we just have 3N on power.
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