Bridge Winners Profile for Mike Sueirro
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- Member Since
- Jan. 30, 2012
- Last Seen
- Sept. 14
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
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- Non Life Master
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- Request to Teachers: Knock It Off with the dang POINT COUNT!
- Get real! I've had rank beginners that can't sort a hand and you want me to talk to them about a coup?
- D11 Report on the BoG Las Vegas Meeting
- Thanks for taking the time to give us this report.
- Mnemonics, Acronyms, or Abbreviations
- I'm a retired Navy officer. In the Navy we refer to helicopters as a helo. So I use that to remind players how to give count. H = High E = Even L = Low O = Odd Works great.
- Advertising your club
- We don't publicize the club at all, but we do use, as Chris does, the ACBL cooperative advertising program to help us advertise beginning lessons. It isn't a huge success, but usually brings in about 10%- 15% of the numbers we get. We're also trying to use ...
- Dealing machine issues?
- I've had similar problems, but with specific cards. It was always a case of having the ink on the character or suit icon flaking off a tiny bit. Rotate the card and it was fine. I've also used pens of matching color to 'fix' the discrepancy. Something similar ...
- How to handle "anxious" newcomers?
- " they still don't understand that 1H-1S (Standard American bidding) is an unlimited bid, whereas 1H-2H is a limited bid. Many of them don't remember that 2NT as a response is different than 2NT as an opener, despite taking lessons from me for at least a year now. " I ...
- The Jones
- How about red points for non-tournament activities? Special club-level events that are held perhaps quarterly? Right now, if they happen at all, they are usually half red/half black. Why so restrictive? And in my club they are generally only available in Open level games. NLM games get short shrift ...
- Club Play #2...Poll.
- I play once or twice per week at my club, and usually teach once per week.
- Going Wild
- Just do a daily synopsis instead of getting every email.
- In Savannah we run two full 20 week series per year for beginners. At the start of each series we run a newspaper ad. It's a 2", one column wide ad, and has been the same ad for probably 10 years. It usually produces a few new people. The ...
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