Bridge Winners Profile for Mike Gill
Basic Information
- Member Since
- March 16, 2011
- Last Seen
- 6 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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- Up or down, Charlie Brown?
- Assuming I think I can take logical inferences from my opponents' actions... West probably has the ♥A to have led his own suit given he pretty much has to have at least 2 diamonds. East has 6 or 7 diamonds and didn't bid 2♦/3♦ and it ...
- Kai Eckert's bidding problem: Q9873 AJ982 962 ---
- What methods are we playing over the double?
- Stayman with 4333 Invite
- We play this 3♦ as asking for a 5M since often with a range ask hand you'll want to check.
- Five No Trump Bids
- 5NT is pick a slam unless the caddies know what suit is trumps.
- Mike Gill's bidding problem: x KQx AKQJxx KJ9
- This hand actually came up during BP with my wife. This time partner held ♠xxxx ♥AJxx ♦xx ♣Qxx. Probably all roads lead to 3NT -1 as RHO has ♠AKJT and the ♣A.
- Steve Stewart's bidding problem: A5 9743 KQJT83 4
- That's fine too even more reason to jump to 4 in that case since if partner doesn't have spades the opponents are probably cold for game.
- Steve Stewart's bidding problem: A5 9743 KQJT83 4
- I don't think that's explicitly what it shows but partner has to have some kind of distributional hand with hearts that didn't want to open. Just seems like a likely explanation for partner not opening is both majors in a hand that can probably just bid Michaels ...
- Steve Stewart's bidding problem: A5 9743 KQJT83 4
- How else is partner supposed to bid ♠Kxxxx ♥KQxxxx ♦x ♣x?
- 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.
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