Bridge Winners Profile for Peiyush Jain
Basic Information
- Member Since
- Nov. 19, 2012
- Last Seen
- 4 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Software Engineer at Google.
Blog: http://ruffnsluff.blogspot.com/search/label/bridge
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- BBO Username
- trumpace
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- Bridge Players and the movie world
- Louis Sachar. The movie Holes has been pretty successful. Barry Crane was associated with the TV series Mission Impossible and the movies based on those are pretty successful.
- Advanced safety plays
- 5D, 1H and 3 clubs is 9 tricks for declarer. You don't want partner to cover!
- Advanced safety plays
- Yes! Hold onto the third spade and the small club to prevent declarer from figuring out the club situation. A similar hand (but simpler probably) I had blogged about earlier: http://ruffnsluff.blogspot.com/2016/01/keep-winners-throw-losers.html
- Watch 1983 TV Series “Master Bridge” on YouTube.
- My first thought 'Wow! This program is pretty great!' My second thought was 'This is actually too deep. This will never fly as a TV program, even for the average bridge player'. The presentation could definitely have been made better (BBO would have helped greatly if it existed).
- Eric Sieg's bidding problem: AQ6 J98xxx 8 A9x
- This is far too pessimistic. Yes your trumps are bad but they will very likely be compensated by your partner's holding (and you have six of them). You also have ♣A, ♠AQ and a singleton diamond.
- Bidding and Lead Combo
- Trump on the get go seems too committal. You could shift to a trump later (yes there likely are hands where a trump lead might be required). CA seems to be the most flexible (trump shift, defensive crossruff etc).
- Table Math
- A handy tool: http://www.rpbridge.net/cgi-bin/xds2.pl Other tools: http://www.rpbridge.net/rpca.htm
- You Know You Have Issues When...
- Ah! I see. Thanks for explaining.
- Carding Question
- Given your 3♥ raise, the presumption that partner has 6 cards and declarer went up with the A (presumably having Kx), attitude seems to make little sense. Yet there are so many votes for it. What am I missing? (The only reason I can think of is partner could ...
- You Know You Have Issues When...
- I don't get this comment. Care to explain?
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