Bridge Winners Profile for Miltiadis Karamanlis

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ATB defense/how should we get this right?: The fact is that you don't need to know how many spades partner has, this is partners job! You just need to return a small ♣, partner knows if he can cash a second spade before he returns a club. I now see that this works if you play 3rd-5th ...
Filippos Karamanlis's bidding problem: AJ765 52 T KQJ94: The only reason to bid something other than 4♠ should be to try for a slam, because in 4♠ LHO most of the times will pass since to go to the 5th level without any help from partner VUL is something with very low probability. Now slam has ...
Hendrik Sharples's bidding problem: AQT98 8 AK5 AQT5: I will pass. Our side will have on average about 25 HCP, if East is a decent player will not lead a spade and even if we manage to make 3-4 ♣ tricks we still need two more coming, at least 1 spade trick other than the Ace and probably ...
Filippos Karamanlis's bidding problem: Q2 A2 AJ654 J942: Partner can have ♠ AJ10xxx a K and a Q (or a K) either ♠ AKxxxx and a K or ♠ AKJxxxx and a Q. In the last case 4♠ is a more or less hopeless contract except if the Q is in ♦, 3NT on the other hand ...