Bridge Winners Profile for Mike Gill
Basic Information
- Member Since
- March 16, 2011
- Last Seen
- 14 minutes 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
- Silver Life Master
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- Liam Milne's bidding problem: AKQ5 JT 7 QJ9863
- On what shape could you possibly be bidding 2♠ with only 4 clubs? With 4324 you'd make a support double and with 4234 and 4144 I sure hope you're passing.
- Chris Miller's bidding problem: 9742 Q9 987654 T
- Maybe but that’s irrelevant to our decision right?
- Define Your Bids Before I Tell You My Defense
- While I mostly agree with this, I think there is something here. *I* can absolutely adjust *my* tactics based on the opponents agreements and that's part of the game. The problem is that I have a partner who may figure out what's up and I think this leads ...
- Winston Chang's bidding problem: J AQJ5 KT3 KQT43
- Not banned. You just can’t do it by agreement.
- Steve Chen's bidding problem: 32 5 Q85 KJT9754
- Facing a passed partner, I see no need to give them 2 extra levels of bidding room on a hand where they might be sniffing at slam.
- Tom Edwards's bidding problem: K6 85 A8642 AQ64
- A good agreement everyone should play is that when there’s only one bid available for stopper investigation like this it should ask for a stopper in the unbid major. The major is more likely to be unstopped since here partner woulda bid 2♥ with 4.
- Minimum for 2S
- Don't think anyone has explicitly stated what I think to be the guiding factor for this decision. I think the line here depends on how much you think partner needs to have to make a reopening X without extra shape. You want to compete to at least 2S when ...
- Mike Gill's lead problem: KJxxx Ax Kxx Txx
- No, you don't have any special agreements like that.
- Mike Gill's lead problem: KJxxx Ax Kxx Txx
- You can assume that it's not 18-19 balanced, but no agreements beyond that.
- Todd Holes's bidding problem: 96 AQ AKT9 AKJT5
- I would have opened 2♣ and rebid 2NT
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