Bridge Winners Profile for Joe Hertz
Basic Information
- Member Since
- April 24, 2012
- Last Seen
- April 8
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
- Designated TechnoGeek of ACBL Unit 218 (Northern Virginia). Where I come from, gcc is a compiler, not a convention chart.
- I want to play against everyone. I prefer Stratified to StrataFlighted events. I wonder if I'm the only one who feels that way.
- My least favorite event is whatever the Swiss is happening on the last day of a Sectional or Regional. If it's round robin, you're all but guaranteed to run into an opponent who is having a really bad day wishes they had gone home early. Good luck with that.
- I'm 13-0 in team matches vs people who were booked when I asked about their availability...so if I ask you, please say yes.
- I have a severe hearing loss. My first duplicate bridge partner is blind. Our card's "general approach" box said "Bid No Evil".
- I once had an opp compliment me on how nice I was about it when calling the director.
- That being said, the first player memos I ever filed were on people who died within 2 years.
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- A long shaggy dog story when I was a NLM, involving a whiny opponent when Jeff Roman jumped into the argument and showed me how the clowns would eat me unless I played A/X exclusively. Six months later, I wound up winning the D6 GNT-C, and immediately thanked him for slapping some sense into me.
- Bridge Accomplishments
- 2010 GNT-C QF
- BBO Username
- JoeCritter
- ACBL Ranking
- Silver Life Master
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- BBO format
- Flash, the last time I checked, had largely been disabled in Chrome. You have to actually do stuff to make it work.
- Keeping the social aspect of online bridge
- I'm in the process of setting up a Discord Server for our Unit so our members can stay in touch (Brenda and I have already exchanged server invites). We've already held a Unit BoD meeting on it. I think I've nailed a validation process down such that ...
- Bidding Question: NMF
- Have you established if opener denies 3 spades with the following sequence? "1♦-1♠-1nt-2♣*-2♥" If opener could have 4 hearts and 3 spades, then I wouldn't necessarily assume the 2♠ bid shows extra length. If you bid 2N here, you might find out he ...
- Bidding Question: NMF
- True. I did say it wasn't optimal. Just that it was simpler and required less discussion.
- ACBL Spring NABC is Canceled
- FWIW, one year on my GNT Squad, I know I was handed cash, received no 1099 form (the amount was less than the threshold for one). It's possible a check was made out to our captain and we split the proceeds (I did not ask), but one of our ...
- ACBL Spring NABC is Canceled
- Does intent actually matter? I mean, you get a 1099 form from a casino for your winnings, and last I checked (admittedly many years ago) losses from such legal gambling is deductible up to the amount of whatever you won, and getting lucky at a slot machine doesn't make ...
- Second coronavirus death at the Colorado Springs bridge club
- It won't be 6 though. It will be 60-600. This is not the way I wanted to save the social security trust fund.
- Security
- Skype would help, but I can quite quickly come up with a few ways for a ch**ting pair to work around it, even if entire screens had to be shared between screen-mates. I'll refrain from mentioning them for obvious reasons.
- Who would you invite?
- Can't have both members of a partnership, right? So lose Fisher and add Andrea Buratti.
- it happened one night
- Probably but that should wait until the end of the auction. You don't do stuff like that. And this pair clearly knew that.
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