Comments on: how to spot a bridge pro

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By: Ellis

Ellis — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:25:45 +0000

There are many types of pro`s as there are many types of clients.
There are those that wish to attain a specific achievement,(lifemaster, mini-mckenney race) There are those that wish to learn how to play better bridge and there are those that just want to bask in the relected glory of being around top players.
Each of those types of clients needs a different proffesional attitude. Which is why there are so many pro`s around, very few can combine the teaching ability along with the organisational skills coupled with schmooze skill and sales technique together as one package.
Oddlly enough one of the hardest things
that pros find they have to do is ask for the money.
I can think of at least three proffesional players sitting amongst the top 50 in the last three years masterpoints lists that are basically playing for peanuts compared to their achievements andhave absolutely no sales technique whatsoever.
Personally I like the clients that really want to learn, because they acheive something every single time they sit down to play, regardless of the result.

By: Jody

Jody — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:51:11 +0000

Apropos to the lady who stated that she
would not play again for “free,”…Paul
Soloway said in an interview once that he
never played with non-clients…his clients were his friends and it would be
an insult to them. That makes sense to
me, but then he didn’t blare it out loud
as this gal seems to have done.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:59:36 +0000

Yes, it was us that Larry mentioned.

The man who failed to find the killing lead has written up the hand for the Scottish Bridge Magazine, so I cannot publish his full article here.

I will say, in his defence, that he did play 48 boards against Meckwell and was essentially even against them. But we’d have had a really good story if you lead the right card:

You hold
S AJ1098
H J10
D 752
C AQ4

You Meckstroth Partner Rodwell
- – 2S* 3H
4S 5H P P
5S X P 6H
X All pass

Partner’s 2S showed 5-5, spades and a minor, 5-10 points.

Your lead?

In the other room, on a different auction, I was in 6H making even after Zia found the right lead! Bocchi, standing behind me, burst out laughing when Zia led the losing card at trick 2 and all the other kibs gasped, so I knew I was making and there was not a bad trump break

By: stacy

stacy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:32:03 +0000

Wow, Paul! It was you Larry wrote about in this month’s BW:

“Not only are today’s fields loaded at the top, there are dangerous teams scattered throughout. To illustrate, on Day 1, the top-seeded NICKELL team nearly lost to the lowest seed in the field! With eight deals to go, number-1 trailed number-106, a group of talented players from the UK. A winning opening lead against a slam late in the day would have won the match for the underdogs.”

Do you know the hand? Will you write it up?

Bob, thanks for being such a regular participant. Like always, you move the conversation forward in interesting directions. It’s my view that good pros know what their true value is to any given client (#3 above).

Just as there are pros who don’t have a clear handle on what their real job entails (the most common in my experience are players who overestimate their playing skills and fancy themselves a team’s best pair), there are a zillion clients who may not know what they really want. Some are in it for the points, some for the titles, some for the bragging rights. Some want lessons, some are in it for the attention. YMMV….