Bridge Winners Profile for Chris Gibson
Basic Information
- Member Since
- June 18, 2010
- Last Seen
- 2 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Professional anti-money laundering investigator, amateur bridge nut living in the Portland, OR metropolitan area. I don't play as much as I would like to, and that probably isn't going to change soon. I am married to a wonderfully supportive non-bridge player, and now have a little boy, Teddy, who was born April 23, but I hope to remain active in playing bridge while I balance my new family life.
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Making the round of 16 in the 2013 Spingolds with Chris Wiegand, Sam Punch, and Stephen Peterkin - the first time I had entered the event. Now up there: Getting my top 4 matchpoint finishes with 3 different partners at nationals in 2016 at Reno, including placing in the Platinum pairs.
- Bridge Accomplishments
- 6 top 10 national finishes, all in the past 7 years.
- Regular Bridge Partners
- Chris Wiegand, Eric Sieg, and Jeff Ford
- Favorite Tournaments
- any NABC, all GNT competitions, Portland and Seaside regionals
- Favorite Conventions
- Stayman and follow-ups derived from it. I played 15 years of home bridge with my parents without knowing stayman, so I really appreciate how wonderful it is.
- BBO Username
- CSGibson
- ACBL Ranking
- Sapphire Life Master
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- ACBL Memphis (Spring 2012) Casebook published with panelist comments
- It appears that my problems were due to my own computer settings, and not inherent to the casebooks.
- ACBL Memphis (Spring 2012) Casebook published with panelist comments
- I had a lot of problems with the last three casebooks, as it appears that the bidding and hand records frequently get the suits wrong.
- Lech Ohrysko's bidding problem: J8 --- AKJ843 AKQ52
- the way I play it, 3♦ would be forcing to game. I'll follow it with 4C/5C or 5D depending on what partner and opponents do.
- ACBL Memphis (Spring 2012) Casebook published with panelist comments
- having read through the national event cases in the Memphis casebook, there seems to be a theme of inadequate polling, both by the director staff prior to making a ruling, and by the committee, who seem to rely largely on their own internal polling, which is biased by knowing the ...
- Timuçin (Timo) Erkoç's bidding problem: AK 652 753 AQJ64
- It seems to be trading one problem for another at best. After all, what do you do with your 5 or 6 spades when it goes X-P-3N? Surely some significant percentage of the time you belong in 4♠ and some significant percentage of the time you belong in 3N ...
- Walsh-style rebids after 1!C/!D - 1!H
- yes, you have the same structure. That has nothing to do with anything I said.
- William Kochneff's bidding problem: ATxx Kxxxxx x Kx
- must have 9 clubs unless they have 8, that is.
- Walsh-style rebids after 1!C/!D - 1!H
- Craig, those are side benefits. The main benefit is that it adds clarity and useful inferences to the 1♠ bid, and makes future bidding decisions easy for responder after 1N.
- Walsh-style rebids after 1!C/!D - 1!H
- I strongly prefer that balanced 12-14 hands rebid 1N instead of 1♠. It helps to take some hands out of 1♠, which is overburdened, and its harder for people to defend against 1N when they don't have as many shape inferences (though, of course, this tendency should ...
- Jenish Shah's bidding problem: JT9865 xx x AJxx
- If I transferred at the 2 level instead of at the 4 level, I presumably thought this was an invite rather than a GF. I go through with my plan and invite (though I personally think it would be better to GF)
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