Billy Miller is back!!!!
It's great to see Billy back at the table
Back from a 4 year hiatus, Billy Miller is once again playing top flight bridge.
Billy quit playing professionally to play poker and stay home with wife Julie, a court reporter in Las Vegas, and Poppy, their green cheeked conure (like a parrot) Poppy has the run (flight?) of the house, and they can’t take trips together because somebody has to be home to take care of the bird.
. Very shortly, though, he was distracted from play by the plight of the wild ducks living in the ponds in his housing development. Poor management had allowed the water in the three lakes of the 2400 home development to become so foul that the birds were dying of botulism. Billy and Julie threw themselves into the cause, hand feeding and saving individual birds while simultaneously working to improve the water quality to eliminate the problem.
Elected twice to the presidency of the homeowners association, Billy has completely revamped the water management system, creating a completely natural system clean enough that not a single duck died of botulism last year. With the animal problem well in hand, Billy feels comfortable coming back to the card table.
Like so many bridge players, Billy has an interesting and varied background. Enrolled in the New England Conservatory of Music at the age of four, he started out as a piano player, switching to guitar with the Beatles invasion of the 60’s. He attended Claremont Mens college in southern California, then worked as a stockbroker for Drexel Burnham Lambert before becoming a full time bridge professional.
One of the pleasures of online bridge is the opportunity to observe top players. Billy (dearbilly on Bridge Base) has been playing internet bridge day and night to get his form back, and always draws a mob of active kibitzers, who hold a lively discussion (which the players can’t see, of course) about every bid and play. Log on to Bridgebase and watch him for yourself
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I wanted to send Billy an email, regarding a different view on one of his articles. If you could pass along his email address, it’s appreciated. I’ll also send it to you, if you give me your email address.